diff --git a/class-wp-codebird.php b/class-wp-codebird.php
index e77a0a44c9c0b436444c23e62baaafcd4ed96445..39001c1837b2f69edf97f7c6733b51dce3bc181a 100644
--- a/class-wp-codebird.php
+++ b/class-wp-codebird.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * @version 1.1.2
  */
-class WP_Codebird extends Codebird {
+class WP_Codebird extends \Codebird\Codebird {
 	/**
 	 * The current singleton instance
 	 */
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99b9fbdffed035d0be5d8ba978f73f102ba2583f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+    "name": "automattic/wp-codebird",
+    "description": "An extension of the Codebird class to use WordPress' HTTP API instead of cURL.",
+    "version": "1.1.2",
+    "license": "GPL-2.0+",
+    "require": {
+        "mynetx/codebird-php": "~2.4"
+    },
+    "autoload": {
+        "files": ["class-wp-codebird.php"]
+    }
+}
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d3a4f68365121efdefa85b602629287c48d61a0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
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+        "This file locks the dependencies of your project to a known state",
+        "Read more about it at http://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file"
+    ],
+    "hash": "315359867471cb3c90c59182a9b9e389",
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+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/jublonet/codebird-php.git",
+                "reference": "c2cbec5858ac1dffb9063411931384163be1fe49"
+            },
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+                "reference": "c2cbec5858ac1dffb9063411931384163be1fe49",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "classmap": [
+                    "src/"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "GPL-3.0"
+            ],
+            "description": "A Twitter library in PHP.",
+            "time": "2013-06-23 17:30:17"
+        }
+    ],
+    "packages-dev": [
+
+    ],
+    "aliases": [
+
+    ],
+    "minimum-stability": "stable",
+    "stability-flags": [
+
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+    "platform": [
+
+    ],
+    "platform-dev": [
+
+    ]
+}