Important: Direct Message IDs will become 64-bit Snowflake IDs on Sep 30, 2011 Hi Developers, Direct Message IDs will become Snowflake-based 64-bit integers on Friday, September 30th. Back in March of 2010, we announced that tweets would soon become 64-bit "Snowflake" IDs. That eventually happened, and now you've all grown accustomed to these monstrously large identifiers for tweets. Due to the in