This seems a clever way to get a short time slice of the Firehose, though potentially easily blockable by Twitter by adding a little more randomness to their ID space twitter.com/jasonbaumgartn
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Yes -- they could use a randomized list of sequence ids. That would scramble 12 bits worth of address space (4,096 checks instead of a couple). They could also add a lot more machines and increase the space on the following 12 bits.
As of right now, the space is very small.