As mentioned in the thread, this can be helpful when you want to extract posting-time from a dehydrated dataset. If your favorite programming language doesn't have bitwise operators like Python (e.g. >>), you can do the same with:
(tweet_id / 2^22) + 1288834974657
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To get the time in epoch milliseconds of when a tweet id was created, you can use this formula:
(tweet_id >> 22) + 1288834974657
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