REST Service - Convert Tweet ID to String

[kev007]

JavaScript number type (double-precision) only has about 15 digits of precision. Javascript rounds any extra digits! Since a Tweet ID has 18 digits, the ID is rounded (very, very bad)

Example:
id: 732822797798539264
turns to:
id: 732822797798539300

The REST service should use the id_str field or convert the id to a string:
id: "732822797798539264"

...
So much time was wasted debugging this.

I now hate javascript.

[kev007]

This is also why some tweets were missing from the map. The chance that tweets had similar IDs was high since IDs are assigned sequentially. Tweets with similar timestamps have similar IDs, therefore collisions occurred when they were rounded.

[martingrimmer]

Lets use the id_str field. I will change the ExtractIterator in this way.

[martingrimmer]

ill do it