diff --git a/dev-python/python-twitter/metadata.xml b/dev-python/python-twitter/metadata.xml
index 197a7d0497433..e2c87ee3c6c48 100644
--- a/dev-python/python-twitter/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/python-twitter/metadata.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 		<name>Python</name>
 	</maintainer>
 	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="google-code">python-twitter</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">bear/python-twitter</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/python-twitter/python-twitter-1.1.ebuild b/dev-python/python-twitter/python-twitter-1.1.ebuild
index b561ea800cb20..63b7ebd836fd0 100644
--- a/dev-python/python-twitter/python-twitter-1.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/python-twitter/python-twitter-1.1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ inherit distutils-r1
 
 DESCRIPTION="This library provides a pure python interface for the Twitter API"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/bear/python-twitter"
-SRC_URI="https://python-twitter.googlecode.com/files/${P}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 
 LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 SLOT="0"