Twitter Oauth Statuses/show in codeigniter returns error

I am using this library for implementing twitter Oauth in my project, and codeigniter if that is relevant in this case.

I am trying to get a tweet based on the tweet id, but it's returning an error:

{"errors":[{"message":"Sorry, that page does not exist","code":34}]}

Here is the code I am using:

public function gettweetbyid() {
    $this->config->load('twitter');
    $consumer = $this->config->item('twitter_consumer_token');
    $consumer_secret = $this->config->item('twitter_consumer_secret');
    $access_token = $this->config->item('twitter_access_token');
    $access_token_secret = $this->config->item('twitter_access_secret');
    $connection = $this->twitteroauth->create($consumer, $consumer_secret, $access_token, $access_token_secret);
    $content = $connection->get('account/verify_credentials');
    $data = array(
        'id' => $this->input->get('id')
    );
    $tweets = $this->twitteroauth->get('statuses/show', $data);

    echo json_encode($tweets);
}

I know everything is right because I am using the plugin as well to get tweets based on a hashtag, and this is no problem at all.

The URl I am getting looks very similar to their docs url:

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show.json?id=408541017676460000&....

I'm looking at this for a whole day now and my time is running out...

Any help would be appreciated!

Edit: Also, is there any way on twitter I can check if the ID actually exists? Altho I don't think that is the problem, I'd like to know for future reference