diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 730a20e..6452696 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # twitter-api changelog
 
+## 0.7.1
+* bumped the search api version to 1.1 (thanks Aaron Steele)
+* incorporated some recommendations from Kibit (thanks Seymores)
+
 ## 0.7.0
 * BREAKING CHANGE: changed the REST function naming convention to the one described in the readme
 * updated the tests to reflect the new function names
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9c3ac86..32aafa5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ This is an up-to-date twitter API wrapper that is based on the clojure http.asyn
 Just add the following to your project.clj file in the _dependencies_ section:
 
 ```
-[twitter-api "0.7.0"]
+[twitter-api "0.7.1"]
 ```
 
 ## Usage
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 71d8924..131aa8b 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject twitter-api/twitter-api "0.7.0"
+(defproject twitter-api/twitter-api "0.7.1"
   :description "full twitter interface"
   :plugins [[lein-clojars "0.7.0"]
             [lein-swank "1.4.4"]]
diff --git a/src/twitter/utils.clj b/src/twitter/utils.clj
index d5ceb60..ed7edae 100644
--- a/src/twitter/utils.clj
+++ b/src/twitter/utils.clj
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
   (let [dot-pos (.lastIndexOf filename ".")
         result (.substring filename (inc dot-pos))]
-    (if (and (>= dot-pos 0) (> (count result) 0))
+    (if (and (>= dot-pos 0) (pos? (count result)))
       result)))
 
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