Twitter glitch shows 18 quintillion bookmarks

by firasdon 2/12/2024, 12:02 AMwith 2 comments

by firasdon 2/12/2024, 12:06 AM

This is interesting to me because (if I understand correctly) Twitter uses 'universal ids' like tweets, user profiles, messages etc all use the same type of ID so they need big numbers

Also I wonder what underlying factors would make a data type max out at 18,446,740,000,000,000,000