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 `npm install twit`
 
-This installs some code to the `npm_modules` subdirectory, which you don't need to worry about. (It's Twit, the library that lets us talk to Twitter.)
+This installs some code to the `node_modules` subdirectory, which you don't need to worry about. (It's Twit, the library that lets us talk to Twitter.)
 
 ## Connecting to Twitter