twitter_set_status should return informations about the twitter status

I tried to save the twitter status id in my node in order to supply the customer with a "retweet" button when i found out that twitter_set_status is'nt returning anything.

function twitter_set_status($twitter_account, $status) {
  $twitter = twitter_connect($twitter_account);
  $twitter->status_update($status);
}

on the other side $twitter->status_update returns the complete Status Object
return new TwitterStatus($values);

wouldn't it be nice if we can have at least the id or false as a return value?