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Re:Random identifiers are poorly compressible by edflsafoiewq on Sunday September 12, 2021 @07:35AM (#28500232)
Twitter uses timestamp + machine ID + sequence number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID

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