diff --git a/nodes/core/social/27-twitter.js b/nodes/core/social/27-twitter.js
index 120f70e81..68852bada 100644
--- a/nodes/core/social/27-twitter.js
+++ b/nodes/core/social/27-twitter.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  **/
 
 var RED = require(process.env.NODE_RED_HOME+"/red/red");
-var ntwitter = require('ntwitter');
+var ntwitter = require('twitter-ng');
 var OAuth= require('oauth').OAuth;
 
 function TwitterNode(n) {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d58f8e259..7eab6fd12 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
         "clone": "~0.1.11",
         "mustache": "~0.7.2",
         "cron":"1.x",
-        "ntwitter":"0.5.0",
+        "twitter-ng":"~0.6.2",
         "oauth":"~0.9.10",
         "xml2js":"~0.2.8",
         "sentiment":"~0.2.1",