How to get Tweet ID from post

Question

I have a simple text-area where someone can type a message to be tweeted on a account. I want to make a list of people re-tweet this tweet.

For as far as i know, i need the unique id of my tweet. But I don't know how to fetch this.

My post:

$twitteroauth = new TwitterOAuth('*****', '******', $oauth_token, $oauth_secret);
$twitteroauth->post('statuses/update', array('status' => $toTweet));

Can i somehow fetch the id directly from my post?

I have been searching the internet, but only seem to find ways of getting a tweet by id and not the other way around.

Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

The id of your tweet can be found in an object returned from API call:

$tweet = $twitteroauth->post('statuses/update', array('status' => $toTweet));

Now $tweet holds the details about your status update, including it's ID.