diff --git a/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp b/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp
index 63f2112c4a63e329e833b095ca2dffa0dcac1b6e..6addd2c48930b0ede4662684bff6718aed5a7ea4 100644
--- a/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp
+++ b/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp
@@ -1472,6 +1472,9 @@ void twitCurl::prepareStandardParams()
     /* Restore any custom request we may have */
     curl_easy_setopt( m_curlHandle, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, NULL );
 
+	/* All supported encodings*/
+    curl_easy_setopt( m_curlHandle, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "" );
+
     /* Clear callback and error buffers */
     clearCurlCallbackBuffers();