Converts Twitter snowflake ids to UTC timestamps (unix epoch seconds or milliseconds) and back.
Hi. I don't use this anymore, so pull requests to fix things up and/or become an owner are very welcome! --nickg 2018
1 sign bit -- not used, always 0?
41 bits (milliseconds since epoch) - 1288834974657L
5 bits datacenter id
5 bits machine id
12 bit sequence number
Currently in php and python. Other languages welcome!
Twitter IDs, JSON and Snowflake 2011-06-26 https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-ids-json-and-snowflake
Other Snowflake news:
https://dev.twitter.com/blog/direct-messages-going-snowflake-on-sep-30-2011