The Wayback Machine - https://web-wp.archive.org/web/20140716022628/https://dev.twitter.com/issues/1708

Issue #1708: Search API returns 9223372036854775807 for since_id etc

This has been going on for a couple of years and Twitter have shrugged it off.

The last 48 hours it's been happening a huge amount.

Plenty of comments about it online, and people working around it in their code.

How about some acknowledgement of the problem and a fix?