diff --git a/src/twitter/compose.py b/src/twitter/compose.py
index 2c5f91a3..0b532186 100644
--- a/src/twitter/compose.py
+++ b/src/twitter/compose.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import output
 import languageHandler
 import arrow
 import logging
+import config
 from long_tweets import twishort
 log = logging.getLogger("compose")
 
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ def compose_tweet(tweet, db, relative_times):
  for url in range(0, len(urls)):
   try:  text = text.replace(urls[url], tweet["entities"]["urls"][url]["expanded_url"])
   except IndexError: pass
-  if 'long_uri' in tweet:
+  if config.app['app-settings']['handle_longtweets'] and 'long_uri' in tweet:
    try:
     oldtext=text
     text=twishort.get_full_text(tweet['long_uri'])