There's a decent write-up of how to do this here: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		lepht on July 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube video has its own URL in it There's a decent write-up of how to do this here: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20090805/ As you said, it largely relies on reverse engineering and bruteforcing Twitter's ID generation.

pomber on July 17, 2019 [–]

Bot author here. That post was before twitter made changes on the id generation. Now it consists of four parts that you need to guess (the datacenterId, the workerId, a sequence and a timestamp). For more details, the bot repo is here: https://github.com/pomber/escher-bot

Consider applying for YC's Winter 2026 batch! Applications are open till Nov 10
Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact