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Re:Ask HN: How do we pick an user ID while building a social... by 56k on Monday August 08, 2016 @05:06AM (#12246365)
You need to have your own IDs IMHO, so that people can associate multiple accounts (ex., both Facebook and Twitter). Could you go with something simple, like a timestamp with microseconds or a timestamp plus a random number?

If you don't want to allow that, why not just to fb_{facebook_id, tw_{twitter_id}, etc.?

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