Friends don't let friends use INT as a primary key. — Richard Schneeman (@schneems) May 13, 2016 A Bit of History… Remember the Twitpocalypse? Back in 2009, Twitter ran out of Integers. Like most of us, they set up the primary key in their tweets table to be a 32-bit signed integer. Once they hit the magical number (2,147,483,647), servers were all but guaranteed to catch fire in the most spectacu