{"id":393,"date":"2007-10-21T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T13:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2007-10-21T14:09:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T13:09:57","slug":"setting-a-high-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Setting a high target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Slashdot<\/strong> reports that <strong>Facebook<\/strong> is moving to 64-bit user IDs. At the moment they&#8217;re using 32-bit, which allows 4.3bn profiles. One writer opines:<\/p>\n<p>Despite having only 47 million users today, <strong>Facebook&#8217;s<\/strong> move to 64 bits will allow it to have more than 18 quintillion (18,446,744,074,000,000,000) user accounts. Of course, there are currently only about 6.5 billion people in the world. Is <strong>Facebook<\/strong> setting their sights beyond Earth or just trying to avoid what happened when <strong>Slashdot<\/strong> ran out of space for comment IDs last year? Perhaps they are planning to implement personas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/10\/20\/1758230\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot reports that Facebook is moving to 64-bit user IDs. At the moment they&#8217;re using 32-bit, which allows 4.3bn profiles. One writer opines: Despite having only 47 million users today, Facebook&#8217;s move to 64 bits will allow it to have more than 18 quintillion (18,446,744,074,000,000,000) user accounts. Of course, there are currently only about 6.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}