diff --git a/js/components/ascribe_detail/media_container.js b/js/components/ascribe_detail/media_container.js
index ab3ab6aa..bc8efcd5 100644
--- a/js/components/ascribe_detail/media_container.js
+++ b/js/components/ascribe_detail/media_container.js
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ import ProgressBar from 'react-bootstrap/lib/ProgressBar';
 
 import MediaPlayer from './../ascribe_media/media_player';
 
-import TwitterShareButton from '../ascribe_social_share/twitter_share_button';
-
 import S3DownloadButton from '../ascribe_buttons/s3_download_button';
 
 import CollapsibleButton from './../ascribe_collapsible/collapsible_button';
@@ -158,10 +156,6 @@ let MediaContainer = React.createClass({
                     extraData={extraData}
                     encodingMessage={this.getEncodingMessage()} />
                 <p className="text-center hidden-print">
-                    <span className="ascribe-social-button-list">
-                        <TwitterShareButton
-                            text={getLangText('Check out %s ascribed piece', didUserRegisterContent ? 'my latest' : 'this' )} />
-                    </span>
                     <AclProxy
                         show={['video', 'audio', 'image'].indexOf(mimetype) === -1 || content.acl.acl_download}
                         aclObject={content.acl}
diff --git a/js/components/ascribe_social_share/twitter_share_button.js b/js/components/ascribe_social_share/twitter_share_button.js
deleted file mode 100644
index b2e8a7dc..00000000
--- a/js/components/ascribe_social_share/twitter_share_button.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-'use strict';
-
-import React from 'react';
-
-import AppConstants from '../../constants/application_constants';
-
-import { InjectInHeadUtils } from '../../utils/inject_utils';
-
-let TwitterShareButton = React.createClass({
-    propTypes: {
-        count: React.PropTypes.string,
-        counturl: React.PropTypes.string,
-        hashtags: React.PropTypes.string,
-        size: React.PropTypes.string,
-        text: React.PropTypes.string,
-        url: React.PropTypes.string,
-        via: React.PropTypes.string
-    },
-
-    getDefaultProps() {
-        return {
-            count: 'none',
-            via: 'ascribeIO'
-        };
-    },
-
-    componentDidMount() {
-        InjectInHeadUtils.inject(AppConstants.twitter.sdkUrl).then(this.loadTwitterButton);
-    },
-
-    loadTwitterButton() {
-        const { count, counturl, hashtags, size, text, url, via } = this.props;
-
-        twttr.widgets.createShareButton(url, this.refs.twitterShareButton.getDOMNode(), {
-            count,
-            counturl,
-            hashtags,
-            size,
-            text,
-            via,
-            dnt: true   // Do not track
-        });
-    },
-
-    render() {
-        return (
-            <span
-                ref="twitterShareButton"
-                className="btn btn-ascribe-social">
-            </span>
-        );
-    }
-});
-
-export default TwitterShareButton;
diff --git a/js/constants/application_constants.js b/js/constants/application_constants.js
index 17eedab8..504676b3 100644
--- a/js/constants/application_constants.js
+++ b/js/constants/application_constants.js
@@ -131,9 +131,6 @@ const constants = {
     'raven': {
         'url': 'https://836bfb71c9c7418a967351d39ce547f0@app.getsentry.com/48351'
     },
-    'twitter': {
-        'sdkUrl': 'https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'
-    },
     'cloudfrontDomain': 'd1qjsxua1o9x03.cloudfront.net',
     'errorMessagesToIgnore': [
         'Authentication credentials were not provided.',
diff --git a/test/gemini/tests/main/detail.js b/test/gemini/tests/main/detail.js
index 6ee0f38e..99bc5c84 100644
--- a/test/gemini/tests/main/detail.js
+++ b/test/gemini/tests/main/detail.js
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ gemini.suite('Work detail', (suite) => {
             actions.waitForElementToShow('.ascribe-app', TIMEOUTS.NORMAL);
 
             // Wait for the social media buttons to appear
-            actions.waitForElementToShow('.ascribe-social-button-list .twitter-share-button', TIMEOUTS.SUPER_DUPER_EXTRA_LONG);
             actions.waitForElementToShow('.ascribe-media-player', TIMEOUTS.LONG);
         });