diff --git a/lib/twitter/streaming/client.rb b/lib/twitter/streaming/client.rb
index 00eb2a44f..93b49f5e5 100644
--- a/lib/twitter/streaming/client.rb
+++ b/lib/twitter/streaming/client.rb
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def request(method, uri, params)
         before_request.call
         authorization = Twitter::Headers.new(self, method, uri, params).oauth_auth_header.to_s
         headers = default_headers.merge(:authorization => authorization)
-        request = HTTP::Request.new(method, uri + '?' + to_url_params(params), headers)
+        request = HTTP::Request.new(:verb => method, :uri => uri + '?' + to_url_params(params), :headers => headers)
         response = Streaming::Response.new do |data|
           if item = Streaming::MessageParser.parse(data) # rubocop:disable AssignmentInCondition
             yield(item)
diff --git a/twitter.gemspec b/twitter.gemspec
index 11219eb97..86c7de146 100644
--- a/twitter.gemspec
+++ b/twitter.gemspec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_dependency 'buftok', '~> 0.2.0'
   spec.add_dependency 'equalizer', '0.0.10'
   spec.add_dependency 'faraday', '~> 0.9.0'
-  spec.add_dependency 'http', ['>= 0.4', '< 0.10']
+  spec.add_dependency 'http', '~> 1.0'
   spec.add_dependency 'http_parser.rb', '~> 0.6.0'
   spec.add_dependency 'json', '~> 1.8'
   spec.add_dependency 'memoizable', '~> 0.4.0'