diff --git a/config/settings/common.py b/config/settings/common.py
index 7add0f3..5e2d8c7 100644
--- a/config/settings/common.py
+++ b/config/settings/common.py
@@ -496,12 +496,20 @@ CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST = (
     'riot.im'
 )
 
+# Matrix chat settings
 MATRIX_USER=env('MATRIX_USERNAME')
 MATRIX_PASSWORD=env('MATRIX_PASSWORD')
 MATRIX_ROOM=env('MATRIX_ROOM')
 MSG_PREFIX = 'MH'
 X_FRAME_OPTIONS = 'SAMEORIGIN'
 
+#Twitter messageing settings
+TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=env('TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY')
+TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=env('TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET')
+TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=env('TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN')
+TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET=env('TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET')
+
+
 AWS_S3_OBJECT_PARAMETERS = {
     'CacheControl': 'max-age=86400',
 }
diff --git a/env.example b/env.example
index 70b45b5..ac15ae6 100644
--- a/env.example
+++ b/env.example
@@ -67,3 +67,9 @@ LDAP_DOMAIN=maidstone-hackspace.org.uk
 LDAP_ADMIN_PASSWORD=secret-ldap-password
 LDAP_SERVER=directory
 LDAP_ROOT=dc=maidstone-hackspace, dc=org, dc=uk
+
+
+TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=example
+TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=example
+TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=example
+TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET=example
diff --git a/mhackspace/base/tasks.py b/mhackspace/base/tasks.py
index 8b6a040..73dd835 100644
--- a/mhackspace/base/tasks.py
+++ b/mhackspace/base/tasks.py
@@ -65,3 +65,19 @@ def matrix_message(message, prefix=''):
     except:
         pass
     return {'result', 'Matrix message sent successfully'}
+
+
+@shared_task
+def twitter_mesage(message, prefix=''):
+    import twitter
+    api = twitter.Api(consumer_key=[settings.TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY],
+                      consumer_secret=[settings.TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET],
+                      access_token_key=[settings.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN],
+                      access_token_secret=[settings.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET])
+    try:
+        status = api.PostUpdate(message)
+        return {'result', 'Twitter message sent successfully'}
+    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        return {'result', "Your message could not be encoded. "
+                "Perhaps it contains non-ASCII characters? "
+                "Try explicitly specifying the encoding with the --encoding flag"}
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 68300bc..d1b1c28 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -103,3 +103,4 @@ django-cors-headers
 python-magic
 ldap3
 bcrypt==3.1.4
+python-twitter==3.4.1