diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/Api/Web/DashboardController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/Api/Web/DashboardController.php
index 727cacfd..3567bad2 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/Api/Web/DashboardController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/Api/Web/DashboardController.php
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@
 namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api\Web;
 
 use App\Http\Controllers\ApiControllerBase;
-use App\News;
 use App\Track;
-use Cover;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Response;
@@ -32,16 +30,7 @@ class DashboardController extends ApiControllerBase
 
         return Response::json([
             'recent_tracks' => $recentTracks,
-            'popular_tracks' => Track::popular(30, Auth::check() && Auth::user()->can_see_explicit_content),
-            'news' => News::getNews(0, 10)
+            'popular_tracks' => Track::popular(30, Auth::check() && Auth::user()->can_see_explicit_content)
         ], 200);
     }
-
-    public function postReadNews()
-    {
-        News::markPostAsRead(Input::get('url'));
-
-        return Response::json([
-        ]);
-    }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/app/News.php b/app/News.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 27f721eb..00000000
--- a/app/News.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-namespace App;
-
-use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
-use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
-use SimplePie;
-
-class News extends Model
-{
-    public static function getNews($start = 0, $end = 4)
-    {
-        $feed = new SimplePie();
-        $feed->cache = false;
-        $feed->set_feed_url('http://mlpforums.com/blog/rss/404-ponyfm-development-blog/');
-        $feed->init();
-        $feed->handle_content_type();
-
-        $posts = $feed->get_items($start, $end);
-        $postHashes = [];
-
-        foreach ($posts as $post) {
-            $postHashes[] = self::calculateHash($post->get_permalink());
-        }
-
-        if (count($postHashes) == 0) {
-            return [];
-        }
-
-        $seenRecords = Auth::check() ? self::where('user_id', '=', Auth::user()->id)->whereIn('post_hash',
-            $postHashes)->get() : [];
-        $seenHashes = [];
-
-        foreach ($seenRecords as $record) {
-            $seenHashes[$record->post_hash] = 1;
-        }
-
-        $postsReturn = [];
-
-        // This date is around when the last blog post was posted as of now.
-        // I put in a cutoff so that blog posts made before this update is pushed are always marked as 'read'
-        $readCutoffDate = mktime(null, null, null, 4, 28, 2013);
-
-        foreach ($posts as $post) {
-            $autoRead = $post->get_date('U') < $readCutoffDate;
-            $postsReturn[] = [
-                'title' => $post->get_title(),
-                'date' => $post->get_date('j F Y g:i a'),
-                'url' => $post->get_permalink(),
-                'read' => $autoRead || isset($seenHashes[self::calculateHash($post->get_permalink())])
-            ];
-        }
-
-        return $postsReturn;
-    }
-
-    public static function markPostAsRead($postUrl)
-    {
-        $postHash = self::calculateHash($postUrl);
-        $news = new News();
-        $news->user_id = Auth::user()->id;
-        $news->post_hash = $postHash;
-        $news->save();
-    }
-
-    private static function calculateHash($postPermalink)
-    {
-        return md5($postPermalink);
-    }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index a5146fc5..8b8ea866 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
         "laravel/framework": "5.1.*",
         "codescale/ffmpeg-php": "2.7.0",
         "kriswallsmith/assetic": "1.2.*@dev",
-        "simplepie/simplepie": "1.3.1",
         "intouch/laravel-newrelic": "*",
         "barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper": "^2.1"
     },
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 12939c00..46e3e19d 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "hash": "d034b42b177f410db0ab3fc82a278346",
+    "hash": "9079e8e598ee7e2caa54fdc23e02e0c1",
+    "content-hash": "de0cc2821022365e5f198a9e5ba3be3f",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper",
@@ -555,16 +556,16 @@
         },
         {
             "name": "kriswallsmith/assetic",
-            "version": "1.2.x-dev",
+            "version": "dev-master",
             "source": {
                 "type": "git",
                 "url": "https://github.com/kriswallsmith/assetic.git",
-                "reference": "182bfb92b61df601b6eb5676bcb3c91eb5fad57a"
+                "reference": "5bea57990f7ddbeb3d57e7ef96eae9ddd56c4297"
             },
             "dist": {
                 "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/kriswallsmith/assetic/zipball/182bfb92b61df601b6eb5676bcb3c91eb5fad57a",
-                "reference": "182bfb92b61df601b6eb5676bcb3c91eb5fad57a",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/kriswallsmith/assetic/zipball/5bea57990f7ddbeb3d57e7ef96eae9ddd56c4297",
+                "reference": "5bea57990f7ddbeb3d57e7ef96eae9ddd56c4297",
                 "shasum": ""
             },
             "require": {
@@ -579,8 +580,8 @@
                 "leafo/scssphp": "*",
                 "leafo/scssphp-compass": "*",
                 "mrclay/minify": "*",
-                "patchwork/jsqueeze": "~1.0",
-                "phpunit/phpunit": "~4",
+                "patchwork/jsqueeze": "*",
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "~3.7",
                 "psr/log": "~1.0",
                 "ptachoire/cssembed": "*",
                 "twig/twig": "~1.6"
@@ -625,7 +626,7 @@
                 "compression",
                 "minification"
             ],
-            "time": "2015-08-05 10:14:34"
+            "time": "2014-07-08 11:30:40"
         },
         {
             "name": "laravel/framework",
@@ -1207,60 +1208,6 @@
             ],
             "time": "2015-07-16 15:26:57"
         },
-        {
-            "name": "simplepie/simplepie",
-            "version": "1.3.1",
-            "source": {
-                "type": "git",
-                "url": "https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie.git",
-                "reference": "ce53709778bc1e2e4deda1651b66e5081398d5cc"
-            },
-            "dist": {
-                "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simplepie/simplepie/zipball/ce53709778bc1e2e4deda1651b66e5081398d5cc",
-                "reference": "ce53709778bc1e2e4deda1651b66e5081398d5cc",
-                "shasum": ""
-            },
-            "require": {
-                "php": ">=5.2.0"
-            },
-            "type": "library",
-            "autoload": {
-                "psr-0": {
-                    "SimplePie": "library"
-                }
-            },
-            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
-            "license": [
-                "BSD-3-Clause"
-            ],
-            "authors": [
-                {
-                    "name": "Ryan Parman",
-                    "homepage": "http://ryanparman.com/",
-                    "role": "Creator, alumnus developer"
-                },
-                {
-                    "name": "Geoffrey Sneddon",
-                    "homepage": "http://gsnedders.com/",
-                    "role": "Alumnus developer"
-                },
-                {
-                    "name": "Ryan McCue",
-                    "email": "me@ryanmccue.info",
-                    "homepage": "http://ryanmccue.info/",
-                    "role": "Developer"
-                }
-            ],
-            "description": "A simple Atom/RSS parsing library for PHP",
-            "homepage": "http://simplepie.org/",
-            "keywords": [
-                "atom",
-                "feeds",
-                "rss"
-            ],
-            "time": "2012-10-30 17:54:03"
-        },
         {
             "name": "swiftmailer/swiftmailer",
             "version": "v5.4.1",
diff --git a/public/templates/dashboard/index.html b/public/templates/dashboard/index.html
index 752af030..723a0ad7 100644
--- a/public/templates/dashboard/index.html
+++ b/public/templates/dashboard/index.html
@@ -2,30 +2,33 @@
 	<section class="recent-tracks">
 		<h1>
 			<a href="/tracks"><i class="icon-music"></i> see more</a>
-			The Newest Tunes
+			The newest tunes
 		</h1>
 		<pfm-tracks-list tracks="recentTracks" class="two-columns"></pfm-tracks-list>
 	</section>
 
 	<section class="popular-tracks">
 		<h1>
-			What's Popular Today
+			What's popular today
 		</h1>
 		<pfm-tracks-list tracks="popularTracks" class="two-columns"></pfm-tracks-list>
 	</section>
 
 	<section class="news">
 		<h1>
-			<a href="http://mlpforums.com/blog/404-ponyfm-development-blog/" target="_blank">read all</a>
-			Pony.fm News
+			<a href="https://twitter.com/ponyfm" target="_blank">follow @ponyfm</a>
+			Pony.fm news
 		</h1>
-		<ul>
-			<li ng-repeat="post in news" ng-class="{'read': post.read}">
-				<a href="{{post.url}}" target="_blank" ng-click="markAsRead(post)">
-					<em>{{post.date}}</em>
-					{{post.title}}
-				</a>
-			</li>
-		</ul>
+    <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/ponyfm" data-widget-id="644195953956798464">Tweets by
+      @ponyfm</a>
+    <script>!function (d, s, id) {
+      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], p = /^http:/.test(d.location) ? 'http' : 'https';
+      if (!d.getElementById(id)) {
+        js = d.createElement(s);
+        js.id = id;
+        js.src = p + "://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";
+        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
+      }
+    }(document, "script", "twitter-wjs");</script>
 	</section>
-</div>
\ No newline at end of file
+</div>
diff --git a/public/templates/home/index.html b/public/templates/home/index.html
index 29291818..c101cc24 100644
--- a/public/templates/home/index.html
+++ b/public/templates/home/index.html
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 	<section class="recent-tracks">
 		<h1>
 			<a href="/tracks"><i class="icon-music"></i> see more</a>
-			The Newest Tunes
+			The newest tunes
 		</h1>
 		<pfm-tracks-list tracks="recentTracks" class="two-columns"></pfm-tracks-list>
 	</section>
 
 	<section class="popular-tracks">
 		<h1>
-			What's Popular Today
+			What's popular today
 		</h1>
 		<pfm-tracks-list tracks="popularTracks" class="two-columns"></pfm-tracks-list>
 	</section>
@@ -26,15 +26,18 @@
 
 		<h1>
 			<a href="http://mlpforums.com/blog/404-ponyfm-development-blog/" target="_blank">read all</a>
-			Pony.fm News
+			Pony.fm news
 		</h1>
-		<ul>
-			<li ng-repeat="post in news">
-				<a href="{{post.url}}" target="_blank">
-					<em>{{post.date}}</em>
-					{{post.title}}
-				</a>
-			</li>
-		</ul>
+    <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/ponyfm" data-widget-id="644195953956798464">Tweets by
+      @ponyfm</a>
+    <script>!function (d, s, id) {
+      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], p = /^http:/.test(d.location) ? 'http' : 'https';
+      if (!d.getElementById(id)) {
+        js = d.createElement(s);
+        js.id = id;
+        js.src = p + "://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";
+        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
+      }
+    }(document, "script", "twitter-wjs");</script>
 	</section>
-</div>
\ No newline at end of file
+</div>
diff --git a/resources/assets/scripts/app/controllers/dashboard.coffee b/resources/assets/scripts/app/controllers/dashboard.coffee
index 1e7014bf..5e4a385c 100644
--- a/resources/assets/scripts/app/controllers/dashboard.coffee
+++ b/resources/assets/scripts/app/controllers/dashboard.coffee
@@ -8,15 +8,8 @@ angular.module('ponyfm').controller "dashboard", [
 	($scope, dashboard, auth, $http) ->
 		$scope.recentTracks = null
 		$scope.popularTracks = null
-		$scope.news = null
 
 		dashboard.refresh().done (res) ->
 			$scope.recentTracks = res.recent_tracks
 			$scope.popularTracks = res.popular_tracks
-			$scope.news = res.news
-
-		$scope.markAsRead = (post) ->
-			if auth.data.isLogged
-				$http.post('/api/web/dashboard/read-news', {url: post.url, _token: window.pfm.token}).success ->
-					post.read = true
-]
\ No newline at end of file
+]
diff --git a/resources/assets/scripts/app/controllers/home.coffee b/resources/assets/scripts/app/controllers/home.coffee
index d9ca38ea..aa1c47f0 100644
--- a/resources/assets/scripts/app/controllers/home.coffee
+++ b/resources/assets/scripts/app/controllers/home.coffee
@@ -8,10 +8,8 @@ angular.module('ponyfm').controller "home", [
 	($scope, dashboard) ->
 		$scope.recentTracks = null
 		$scope.popularTracks = null
-		$scope.news = null
 
 		dashboard.refresh().done (res) ->
 			$scope.recentTracks = res.recent_tracks
 			$scope.popularTracks = res.popular_tracks
-			$scope.news = res.news
-]
\ No newline at end of file
+]