diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py
index 1cdca544cb..1472f22a71 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/twitter.py
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
         title = self._og_search_description(webpage).strip('').replace('\n', ' ')
 
         # strip  'https -_t.co_BJYgOjSeGA' junk from filenames
-        mobj = re.match(r'“(.*)\s+(http://[^ ]+)”', title)
+        mobj = re.match(r'“(.*)\s+(https?://[^ ]+)”', title)
         title, short_url = mobj.groups()
 
         card_id = self._search_regex(