diff --git a/tango.py b/tango.py
index 0994257..d19193c 100644
--- a/tango.py
+++ b/tango.py
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ class setup:
 		if len(list(status)) > 140:
 			print "This status message is over 140 characters, but we're gonna try it anyway. Might wanna watch this!"
 		try:
-			return simplejson.load(self.opener.open("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json?", urllib.urlencode({"status": status}, {"in_reply_to_status_id": in_reply_to_status_id})))
+			return simplejson.load(self.opener.open("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json?", urllib.urlencode({"status": status, "in_reply_to_status_id": in_reply_to_status_id})))
 		except HTTPError, e:
 			if self.debug is True:
 				print e.headers
diff --git a/tango3k.py b/tango3k.py
index ba3d771..696706d 100644
--- a/tango3k.py
+++ b/tango3k.py
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ class setup:
 			print("This status message is over 140 characters, but we're gonna try it anyway. Might wanna watch this!")
 		if self.authenticated is True:
 			try:
-				return simplejson.load(self.opener.open("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json?", urllib.parse.urlencode({"status": status}, {"in_reply_to_status_id": in_reply_to_status_id})))
+				return simplejson.load(self.opener.open("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json?", urllib.parse.urlencode({"status": status, "in_reply_to_status_id": in_reply_to_status_id})))	
 			except HTTPError as e:
 				if self.debug is True:
 					print(e.headers)