diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py
index 54d6d2097e..8cb2e6e804 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ def _transform_user(self, user):
                 "name"            : user["screen_name"],
                 "nick"            : user["name"],
                 "description"     : user["description"],
+                "url"             : "",
                 "location"        : user["location"],
                 "date"            : text.parse_datetime(
                     user["created_at"], "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y"),
@@ -231,6 +232,13 @@ def _transform_user(self, user):
                 "media_count"     : user["media_count"],
                 "statuses_count"  : user["statuses_count"],
             }
+            if "urls" in user["entities"]["description"]:
+                for tco in user["entities"]["description"]["urls"]:
+                    cache[uid]["description"] = cache[uid]["description"]\
+                        .replace(tco["url"], tco["expanded_url"])
+            if "url" in user["entities"]:
+                cache[uid]["url"] = \
+                    user["entities"]["url"]["urls"][0]["expanded_url"]
         return cache[uid]
 
     def _users_result(self, users):