Has anyone ever tried to guess the ID that gets assigned to a tweet after it's posted and embed its URL in the tweet itself to achieve infinite recursion?https://twitter.com/oacgnol/status/1177701914135449601 …
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There was a guy who did this back in the early days of twitter, when tweet ids were sequential and twitter was still pretty small. He wrote a script to just try guessing and posting the tweet, deleting if it failed, and trying again until he got one.
That's almost the method I hope would still work... but are the IDs no longer sequential (or, at least, in distributed sequential blocks)? Apparently Twitter gets around 6K tweets per second on average, so at a quiet time of the week, maybe 1K/s.
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If you could send two tweets as close together as you can, check the difference in their IDs, then post a third which presumes the same gap in IDs, if that turnaround-time is a couple of seconds, it wouldn't take too many attempts to get lucky...
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There are other variables since the ID generation is distributed. I doesn’t seem possible
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