diff --git a/network/twitter/twitter.SlackBuild b/network/twitter/twitter.SlackBuild
index c6395b64c1..b4902d039d 100644
--- a/network/twitter/twitter.SlackBuild
+++ b/network/twitter/twitter.SlackBuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 
 PRGNAM=twitter
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.15.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.16.0}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/network/twitter/twitter.info b/network/twitter/twitter.info
index 73dd646cc7..26a856ae20 100644
--- a/network/twitter/twitter.info
+++ b/network/twitter/twitter.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="twitter"
-VERSION="1.15.0"
+VERSION="1.16.0"
 HOMEPAGE="http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/t/twitter/twitter-1.15.0.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="ba530230d1687a2a8bfd720a963f13c0"
+DOWNLOAD="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/t/twitter/twitter-1.16.0.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="964b83350fc0bf7234150a31bf024e41"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="pysetuptools"