diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6ae34490..8efe3b9a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Please see also http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/ReleaseNotes.
       * Fixed example scripts to exit with the right exit code (issue 544)
       * Fixed build failure with glib 2.31.0+ (issue 559)
       * Fixed error handler failures in some cases (issue 589)
+      * Fixed Twitter-related examples to work with the new site (issue 609)
 
 2012-03-20: Version 1.5.0 "Ghost Flower"
 
diff --git a/examples/follow.coffee b/examples/follow.coffee
index ed479f1e..1735dd37 100644
--- a/examples/follow.coffee
+++ b/examples/follow.coffee
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ follow = (user, callback) ->
     if status is 'fail'
       console.log user + ': ?'
     else
-      data = page.evaluate -> document.querySelector('div.timeline-following').innerText
+      data = page.evaluate -> document.querySelector('div.profile td.stat.stat-last div.statnum').innerText;
       console.log user + ': ' + data
     callback.apply()
 
diff --git a/examples/follow.js b/examples/follow.js
index ad0dbc64..4687f290 100644
--- a/examples/follow.js
+++ b/examples/follow.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ function follow(user, callback) {
             console.log(user + ': ?');
         } else {
             var data = page.evaluate(function () {
-                return document.querySelector('div.timeline-following').innerText;
+                return document.querySelector('div.profile td.stat.stat-last div.statnum').innerText;
             });
             console.log(user + ': ' + data);
         }
diff --git a/examples/tweets.coffee b/examples/tweets.coffee
index ed1197be..ca96357d 100644
--- a/examples/tweets.coffee
+++ b/examples/tweets.coffee
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ page.open encodeURI("http://mobile.twitter.com/#{twitterId}"), (status) ->
     else
         # Execute some DOM inspection within the page context
         page.evaluate ->
-            list = document.querySelectorAll 'span.status'
+            list = document.querySelectorAll 'div.tweet-text'
             for i, j in list
-                console.log "#{j + 1}: #{i.innerHTML.replace /<.*?>/g, ''}"
+                console.log "#{j + 1}: #{i.innerText}"
     phantom.exit()
diff --git a/examples/tweets.js b/examples/tweets.js
index 5dbda760..c8f20964 100644
--- a/examples/tweets.js
+++ b/examples/tweets.js
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ page.open(encodeURI("http://mobile.twitter.com/" + twitterId), function (status)
     } else {
         // Execute some DOM inspection within the page context
         page.evaluate(function() {
-            var list = document.querySelectorAll('span.status');
+            var list = document.querySelectorAll('div.tweet-text');
             for (var i = 0; i < list.length; ++i) {
-                console.log((i + 1) + ": " + list[i].innerHTML.replace(/<.*?>/g, ''));
+                console.log((i + 1) + ": " + list[i].innerText);
             }
         });
     }