Utility functions for creating and melting Twitter snowflake ID's.
import time
from snowflake import *
# using tweet id from https://twitter.com/falcondai/status/345063379196600321
snowflake_id = 345063379196600321
timestamp, data_center, worker, sequence = melt(snowflake_id)
print 'the tweet was created at %s' % local_datetime(timestamp)
# create a snowflake id for the current millisecond
print make_snowflake(time.time()*1000, 1, 0, 0)MIT License
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