diff --git a/network/twitter/twitter.SlackBuild b/network/twitter/twitter.SlackBuild
index 563f56bc17..e11ebecbf4 100644
--- a/network/twitter/twitter.SlackBuild
+++ b/network/twitter/twitter.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for twitter
 
-# Copyright 2014-2015 Dimitris Zlatanidis Orestiada, Greece
+# Copyright 2014-2015  Dimitris Zlatanidis  Orestiada, Greece
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 
 PRGNAM=twitter
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.17.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.17.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/network/twitter/twitter.info b/network/twitter/twitter.info
index 2d016f99f4..64b604a3ab 100644
--- a/network/twitter/twitter.info
+++ b/network/twitter/twitter.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="twitter"
-VERSION="1.17.0"
+VERSION="1.17.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/t/twitter/twitter-1.17.0.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="f5e412264759dd6ebde16c6554b8cf34"
+DOWNLOAD="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/t/twitter/twitter-1.17.1.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="65219549f09a030719bac6e20b12c3eb"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="pysetuptools"