URL for a link to Twitter for a specific tweet

Question

I have some Javascript that uses Twitter API to get tweets. I parse the data and use jQuery to generate HTML for the DOM.

An aspect of what I want to display is a "View this tweet" link -- yeah, sorta sounds silly, but it allows a user to get a URL for a specific tweet.

I am generating an a tag with an href. The URL is of the form:

http://twitter.com/{twitter-user-id}/status/{tweet-status-id} 

where the content in curly braces is actual data extracted from the tweet (no, I am not including the curly braces). For example:

http://twitter.com/Atechtrader/status/57432099984130050 

What happens in operation is that this works for some tweets, but not others. For the ones that fails, the Twitter server responds with content that says the requested page does not exist.

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

https://twitter.com/statuses/ID should work.
it will redirect to the needed status.