Not sure if I miss your question, but the response body for a successful status update returns a full status object, including the new ID.
Hope this helps, Marco 2009/6/23 Peter Denton <petermden...@gmail.com> > Hello, > Is there any chance in the future a http 200 response from a status update > could return the newly created twitter ID. Meaning, dup the effect of > mysql_insert_id()? > > > > >