How Does Twitter Generate a Unique ID for Every Tweet — Across Hundreds of Servers Simultaneously?
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The Problem Nobody Thinks About
Approach 1 — UUID (Simple but Flawed)
Approach 2 — Central ID Server (Ordered but Fragile)
Approach 3 — Snowflake IDs (Twitter's Actual Solution)
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