diff --git a/build.properties.default b/build.properties.default
index 884c2c6f11..7ebe3c866c 100644
--- a/build.properties.default
+++ b/build.properties.default
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@ artifact.remoteRepository.apache:      https://repository.apache.org/content/rep
 artifact.remoteRepository.cloudera:    https://repository.cloudera.com/content/repositories/releases
 artifact.remoteRepository.jclouds:     http://jclouds.googlecode.com/svn/repo
 artifact.remoteRepository.oauth:       http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/maven
-artifact.remoteRepository.twttr:       http://maven.twttr.com
 
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 263f8443e0..4800dbe6f8 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -192,7 +192,6 @@
       <!-- for distributed tests -->
       <artifact:remoteRepository id="jclouds"   url="${artifact.remoteRepository.jclouds}"/>
       <artifact:remoteRepository id="oauth"     url="${artifact.remoteRepository.oauth}"/>
-      <artifact:remoteRepository id="twttr"     url="${artifact.remoteRepository.twttr}"/>
 
       <property name="maven-ant-tasks.initialized" value="true"/>
     </target>
@@ -238,13 +237,12 @@
                              sourcesFilesetId="test-dependency-sources" 
                              cacheDependencyRefs="true" 
                              dependencyRefsBuildFile="${build.dir}/test-dependencies.xml">
-        <dependency groupId="org.apache.whirr" artifactId="whirr-core" version="0.3.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT"/>
-        <dependency groupId="org.apache.whirr" artifactId="whirr-cli" version="0.3.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT"/>
+        <dependency groupId="org.apache.whirr" artifactId="whirr-core" version="0.3.0-incubating"/>
+        <dependency groupId="org.apache.whirr" artifactId="whirr-cli" version="0.3.0-incubating"/>
         <remoteRepository refid="apache"/>
         <remoteRepository refid="central"/>
         <remoteRepository refid="jclouds"/>
         <remoteRepository refid="oauth"/>
-        <remoteRepository refid="twttr"/>
       </artifact:dependencies>
       <copy todir="${test.lib}/jars">
         <fileset refid="test-dependency-jars"/>