I've had a bug submitted by a user of the Twitterizer .NET library, and it appears to be a possible bug with the Twitter API.
After destroying a status, the /users/show/screen_name.json result still contained the destroyed status, while the /users/show/ screen_name.xml results (correctly, I think) contains the previous status. Below is the example, both from the user "ronneylovely". The status "wow" has been deleted. Thanks in advance for any insight or attention you give, Ricky JSON (api.twitter.com/1/users/show/ronneylovely.json): {"favourites_count":1,"created_at":"Thu Apr 15 15:23:35 +0000 2010","profile_sidebar_fill_color":"e0ff92","description":null,"contributors_enabled":false,"time_zone":null,"status": {"in_reply_to_status_id":null,"created_at":"Mon Apr 19 22:05:12 +0000 2010","in_reply_to_user_id":null,"truncated":false,"source":"web","favorited":false,"id": 12478411850,"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"text":"wow"},"following":false,"geo_enabled":false,"profile_sidebar_border_color":"87bc44","url":null,"verified":false,"profile_background_color":"9ae4e8","location":null,"profile_background_image_url":"http:// s.twimg.com/a/1271213136/images/themes/theme1/ bg.png","profile_text_color":"000000","followers_count": 0,"protected":false,"profile_image_url":"http://s.twimg.com/a/ 1271213136/images/ default_profile_3_normal.png","notifications":false,"profile_background_tile":false,"name":"ronneylovely","friends_count": 4,"profile_link_color":"0000ff","screen_name":"ronneylovely","id": 133348295,"lang":"en","statuses_count":2,"utc_offset":null} XML (api.twitter.com/1/users/show/ronneylovely.xml): <user> <id>133348295</id> <name>ronneylovely</name> <screen_name>ronneylovely</screen_name> <location></location> <description></description> <profile_image_url>http://s.twimg.com/a/1271725794/images/ default_profile_3_normal.png</profile_image_url> <url></url> <protected>false</protected> <followers_count>0</followers_count> <profile_background_color>9ae4e8</profile_background_color> <profile_text_color>000000</profile_text_color> <profile_link_color>0000ff</profile_link_color> <profile_sidebar_fill_color>e0ff92</profile_sidebar_fill_color> <profile_sidebar_border_color>87bc44</profile_sidebar_border_color> <friends_count>4</friends_count> <created_at>Thu Apr 15 15:23:35 +0000 2010</created_at> <favourites_count>1</favourites_count> <utc_offset></utc_offset> <time_zone></time_zone> <profile_background_image_url>http://s.twimg.com/a/1271725794/images/ themes/theme1/bg.png</profile_background_image_url> <profile_background_tile>false</profile_background_tile> <notifications></notifications> <geo_enabled>false</geo_enabled> <verified>false</verified> <following></following> <statuses_count>1</statuses_count> <lang>en</lang> <contributors_enabled>false</contributors_enabled> <status> <created_at>Thu Apr 15 15:25:38 +0000 2010</created_at> <id>12228846134</id> <text>testing this thing</text> <source>web</source> <truncated>false</truncated> <in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id> <in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id> <favorited>false</favorited> <in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name> <geo/> <coordinates/> <place/> <contributors/> </status> </user> -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en