diff --git a/modules/Twitter.py b/modules/Twitter.py
index 8ba2be9..fe43d00 100644
--- a/modules/Twitter.py
+++ b/modules/Twitter.py
@@ -246,14 +246,14 @@ class Twitter(Module):
         if tweet.retweeted_status:
             retweet = tweet.retweeted_status
             if print_source:
-                return '%s (RT %s): %s [%s]' % (tweet.user.name.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), retweet.user.name.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), retweet.text.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), tweet.id)
+                return '%s (RT %s): %s [%s]' % (tweet.user.name.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), retweet.user.name.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), self._unescape(retweet.text.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')), tweet.id)
             else:
-                return '(RT %s): %s [%s]' % (retweet.user.name.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), retweet.text.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), tweet.id)
+                return '(RT %s): %s [%s]' % (retweet.user.name.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), self._unescape(retweet.text.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')), tweet.id)
         else:
             if print_source:
-                return '%s: %s [%s]' % (tweet.user.name.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), tweet.text.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), tweet.id)
+                return '%s: %s [%s]' % (tweet.user.name.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), self._unescape(tweet.text.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')), tweet.id)
             else:
-                return '%s [%s]' % (tweet.text.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'), tweet.id)
+                return '%s [%s]' % (self._unescape(tweet.text.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')), tweet.id)
 
     def _get_last_since_id(self):
         """Get the since_id out of the database."""
@@ -321,5 +321,13 @@ class Twitter(Module):
 
         return latest
 
+    def _unescape(self, text):
+        """Convert <, >, & to their real entities."""
+
+        text = text.replace('&lt;', '<')
+        text = text.replace('&gt;', '>')
+        text = text.replace('&amp;', '&')
+        return text
+
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