diff --git a/twoot.py b/twoot.py
index b2ea65b..21209be 100755
--- a/twoot.py
+++ b/twoot.py
@@ -216,13 +216,14 @@ def main(argv):
             if m is not None:
                 link_url = m.group(0)
                 try:
-                    r = requests.get(link_url)
+                    r = requests.get(link_url, timeout=10)
                     if r.status_code == 200:
                         # Matches the first instance of either twitter:image or twitter:image:src meta tag
                         match = re.search(r'<meta name="twitter:image(?:|:src)" content="(.+?)".*?>', r.text)
                         if match is not None:
-                            photos.append(match.group(1))
-                except (ConnectionError, requests.exceptions.ContentDecodingError):
+                            url = match.group(1).replace('&amp;', '&')  # Remove HTML-safe encoding from URL if any
+                            photos.append(url)
+                except (requests.exceptions.ConnectionError, requests.exceptions.Timeout):
                     pass
 
         # Add dictionary with content of tweet to list