Re-construct/find ID of a tweet given the text?

[zzhang]

Hi

I wonder if there is any possible way to find the id of a tweet, if I know its text? I know this is a strange question… I am working on a research project and I gathered some tweets, however, when saving the tweet ID, I made a systematic error. All ids are saved as numbers and for some reason, they were converted to a scientific notation rounded to 11 decimal place. So 891480567002345472 becomes 8.91480567002E+017.

I would like to make my data available for other scientific research, but I understand that I can only share the tweet IDs. However, given this mass-up, I won’t be able to do so.

The only information I have about each tweet, is its incomplete ID, and its text… is there any miracle that can save me from this mass?

Thanks in advance

[andypiper]

It sounds like you’ve probably been using Javascript or another language that does not handle very long numbers correctly. Unfortunately I’m not aware of a way around this short of querying for the Tweets again and using the id_str string values instead of the large integers. Others may have a better idea though.