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I use twitter API to retrieve the user home timeline tweets. I use json response format. Recently the tweet id (in API it is just 'id') are retuned wrong. As an example
normally it should return like this: "id": 14057503720, (example is from twitter console) however at my request it is returned like this: "id": 1172601832
It is 1 digit less and it is totally different. I need the proper ID because I can't make use of the parameters like since_id or max_id.
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All Twitter APIs that return Tweets provide that data encoded using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). JSON is based on key-value pairs, with named attributes and associated values. These attributes, and their state are used to describe objects. At Twitter we serve many objects as JSON, including Tweets and Users.
Today, Twitter IDs are unique 64-bit unsigned integers, which are based on time, instead of being sequential. The full ID is composed of a timestamp, a worker number, and a sequence number.
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Use id_str instead of id. It doesn't seem to be documented, but if you look at the raw source of the JSON you can see that id_str for each tweet is the one that correctly corresponds to the ID of the tweet.
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It is 1 digit less and it is totally different. I need the proper ID because I can't make use of the parameters like since_id or max_id.
It is not totally different; just different. If you write both IDs in hex, you'll receive
0x345E47BE8
0x45E47BE8
Tweet IDs are 64-bit and somewhere in parsing you lose the most significant 32-bit half of it. Use id_str as other (also in the linked article) suggest.
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