Can I fetch the tweet from Twitter if I know the tweet's id?

Question

Can I fetch the tweet from Twitter if I know the tweet's id?

Answer 1

Just look at the public API.

Answer 2

If you know the status id, you can get the tweet by scraping the page (getting the HTML and parsing it), or, more securely, through the Twitter API.

Answer 3

Yes you can. Check this.

Answer 4

http://search.twitter.com/search.json?rpp=50?q=from:{twittername}

Answer 5

Disclaimer: link is to my own project

http://www.alexanderdickson.com/projects/jquery-plugins/buzzard/