Snowflake ID

The format has been adopted by other companies, including Discord and Instagram.

Twelve more bits represent a per-machine sequence number, to allow creation of multiple snowflakes in the same millisecond.

[3] A tweet produced by @Wikipedia in June 2022[4] has the snowflake ID 1541815603606036480.

The number may be converted to binary as 00 0001 0101 0110 0101 1010 0001 0001 1111 0110 0010 00|01 0111 1010|0000 0000 0000, with pipe symbols denoting the three parts of the ID.

[1] Due to implementation challenges, they waited until later in the year to roll out the update.