diff --git a/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp b/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp
index cc24e138..6d2b2577 100644
--- a/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp
+++ b/backends/twitter/libtwitcurl/twitcurl.cpp
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 #include "twitcurl.h"
 #include "urlencode.h"
 
+static int myDebugCallback(CURL *,
+                    curl_infotype type,
+                    char *data,
+                    size_t size,
+                    void *handle)
+{
+	std::cerr << std::string(data, size);
+  return 0;
+};
+
 /*++
 * @method: twitCurl::twitCurl
 *
@@ -30,6 +40,8 @@ m_eProtocolType( twitCurlTypes::eTwitCurlProtocolHttp )
         std::string dummyStr;
         getLastCurlError( dummyStr );
     }
+    curl_easy_setopt(m_curlHandle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
+	curl_easy_setopt(m_curlHandle, CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION, myDebugCallback);
 }
 
 /*++
diff --git a/cmake_modules/opensslConfig.cmake b/cmake_modules/opensslConfig.cmake
index b3f012c8..34558c5d 100644
--- a/cmake_modules/opensslConfig.cmake
+++ b/cmake_modules/opensslConfig.cmake
@@ -236,8 +236,6 @@
         REQUIRED_VARS
           OPENSSL_LIBRARIES
           OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR
-        VERSION_VAR
-          OPENSSL_VERSION
         FAIL_MESSAGE
           "Could NOT find OpenSSL, try to set the path to OpenSSL root folder in the system variable OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR"
       )
diff --git a/src/logging.cpp b/src/logging.cpp
index cbeb6a6f..88ef3cc2 100644
--- a/src/logging.cpp
+++ b/src/logging.cpp
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ protected:
     virtual std::streamsize xsputn(const char *msg, std::streamsize count){
 
         //Output to log4cxx logger
-        std::string s(msg,count);
-		LOG4CXX_INFO(_logger, msg);
+        std::string s(msg, count - 1); // remove last \n
+		LOG4CXX_INFO(_logger, s);
         return count;
     }