diff --git a/Repositories/otago_eprints3/otago_eprints/cfg/cfg.d/twitter.pl b/Repositories/otago_eprints3/otago_eprints/cfg/cfg.d/twitter.pl
index 5a9c58a..cf3f4b4 100755
--- a/Repositories/otago_eprints3/otago_eprints/cfg/cfg.d/twitter.pl
+++ b/Repositories/otago_eprints3/otago_eprints/cfg/cfg.d/twitter.pl
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
 		# of curl, wget, etc. Also now truncates the title if the
 		# tweet would otherwise be longer than 140 characters.
                 
-		my $isgdCmd = $twitterCmd = '';
+		my $isgdCmd = '';
+		my $twitterCmd = '';
 		my $shorturl = '';
                 
 		my $title = $eprint->get_value( "title" );