diff --git a/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp b/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp
index 6d2b2577360b838c041ebb26d9641afe581885a6..a22b887c6d7906dce113e0e3c2f807aadd683de5 100644
--- a/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp
+++ b/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ m_eProtocolType( twitCurlTypes::eTwitCurlProtocolHttp )
         getLastCurlError( dummyStr );
     }
     curl_easy_setopt(m_curlHandle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
+    curl_easy_setopt(m_curlHandle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
 	curl_easy_setopt(m_curlHandle, CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION, myDebugCallback);
 }