numerology – Terence Eden’s Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog Regular nonsense about tech and its effects 🙃 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 21:33:35 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-avatar-32x32.jpeg numerology – Terence Eden’s Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog 32 32 <![CDATA[Billions of Tweets]]> https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/01/billions-of-tweets/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/01/billions-of-tweets/#respond Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:03:38 +0000 http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=9573 Numbers matter to some people. It's sometimes not important who did something first - but rather who did things on "milestone" numbers.

Here are the billionth messages posted on Twitter.

1,000,000,000

Although Ann is still on Twitter, the website they pointed to is long since gone.

2,000,000,000

Star1051's account appears to have been taken over by a spammer. It is no longer in use as of December 2009.

3,000,000,000

3,000,000,000 is gone

4,000,000,000

No longer using Twitter as of August 2011.

5,000,000,000

5,000,000,000 since deleted.

6,000,000,000

Они задолбали is still going strong

7,000,000,000

Trish announced she was leaving Twitter in April 2011.

8,000,000,000

Last seen in October 2013

9,000,000,000

Makiko is still Tweeting away.

10,000,000,000

Kimmie is a relentless Twitter user.

...and then?

Late in 2010, Twitter switched to Snowflake for generating IDs. This meant Tweet IDs were no longer guaranteed to be sequential (although they are usually sortable).

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