Twitter4j favourite count

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to solve the following:

I am using the following code to display the favourite count of a tweet:

public void onStatus(Status status) {
int favCount = status.getFavoriteCount();
...

The problem I am having is that I can only get this to give the favCount when the tweet is created and thus the favCount is always 0. I am saving the tweet to an arraylist like this:

tweet = status.getText();
allTweets.append(tweet);
...

Is there a way I can keep updating the favCount of each saved tweet?

I hope this makes sense!

Thanks!