diff --git a/backends/twitter/HTTPRequest.cpp b/backends/twitter/HTTPRequest.cpp
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+#include "HTTPRequest.h"
+DEFINE_LOGGER(logger, "HTTPRequest")
+
+bool HTTPRequest::init()
+{
+	curlhandle = curl_easy_init();
+	if(curlhandle) {
+		curlhandle = curl_easy_init();
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_PROXY, NULL);
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, NULL);
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH, (long)CURLAUTH_ANY);
+		return true;
+	}
+	LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "Couldn't Initialize curl!")
+	return false;
+}
+
+void HTTPRequest::setProxy(std::string IP, std::string port, std::string username, std::string password)
+{
+	if(curlhandle) {
+		std::string proxyIpPort = IP + ":" + port;
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_PROXY, proxyIpPort.c_str());
+		if(username.length() && password.length()) {
+			std::string proxyUserPass = username + ":" + password;
+			curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, proxyUserPass.c_str());
+		}
+	} else {
+		LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "Trying to set proxy while CURL isn't initialized")
+	}
+}
+
+int HTTPRequest::curlCallBack(char* data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, HTTPRequest* obj)
+{
+    int writtenSize = 0;
+    if(obj && data) {
+       obj->callbackdata.append(data, size*nmemb);
+	   writtenSize = (int)(size*nmemb);
+    }
+    return writtenSize;
+}
+
+
+bool HTTPRequest::GET(std::string url, 	std::string &data)
+{
+	if(curlhandle) {
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, NULL);
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
+		
+		data = "";
+		callbackdata = "";
+		memset(curl_errorbuffer, 0, 1024);
+		
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, curl_errorbuffer);
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, curlCallBack);
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, this);
+			
+		/* Set http request and url */
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
+		curl_easy_setopt(curlhandle, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
+		
+		/* Send http request and return status*/
+		if(CURLE_OK == curl_easy_perform(curlhandle)) {
+			data = callbackdata;
+			return true;
+		}
+	} else {
+		LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "CURL not initialized!")
+		strcpy(curl_errorbuffer, "CURL not initialized!");
+	}
+	return false;
+}