diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 00dd2c1..1e7bdaa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,27 +29,21 @@ You really can't get much simpler than that. The above bullet points are an exam
 Installation
 ------------
 
-**Normally:** If you *don't* use composer, don't worry - just include TwitterAPIExchange.php in your application. 
+**Normally:** If you *don't* use composer, don't worry - just include TwitterAPIExchange.php in your application.
 
-**Via Composer:** If you realise it's 2015 now and you *do* use composer, here's what you add to your composer.json file to have TwitterAPIExchange.php automatically imported into your vendors folder:
+```php
+require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php');
+```
 
-    {
-        "require": {
-            "j7mbo/twitter-api-php": "dev-master"
-        }
-    }
+**Via Composer:**
 
-Of course, you'll then need to run `php composer.phar update`.
+```bash
+composer require j7mbo/twitter-api-php
+```
 
 How To Use
 ----------
 
-#### Include the class file ####
-
-```php
-require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php');
-```
-
 #### Set access tokens ####
 
 ```php
@@ -68,7 +62,7 @@ $url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/blocks/create.json';
 $requestMethod = 'POST';
 ```
 
-#### Choose POST fields ####
+#### Choose POST fields (or PUT fields if you're using PUT) ####
 
 ```php
 $postfields = array(
diff --git a/TwitterAPIExchange.php b/TwitterAPIExchange.php
index 7987522..d6e3a58 100755
--- a/TwitterAPIExchange.php
+++ b/TwitterAPIExchange.php
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ public function setPostfields(array $array)
     {
         if (!is_null($this->getGetfield()))
         {
-            throw new Exception('You can only choose get OR post fields.');
+            throw new Exception('You can only choose get OR post fields (post fields include put).');
         }
 
         if (isset($array['status']) && substr($array['status'], 0, 1) === '@')
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@ public function setPostfields(array $array)
         $this->postfields = $array;
 
         // rebuild oAuth
-        if (isset($this->oauth['oauth_signature'])) {
+        if (isset($this->oauth['oauth_signature']))
+        {
             $this->buildOauth($this->url, $this->requestMethod);
         }
 
@@ -150,7 +151,7 @@ public function setGetfield($string)
     {
         if (!is_null($this->getPostfields()))
         {
-            throw new Exception('You can only choose get OR post fields.');
+            throw new Exception('You can only choose get OR post / post fields.');
         }
 
         $getfields = preg_replace('/^\?/', '', explode('&', $string));
@@ -165,7 +166,7 @@ public function setGetfield($string)
             }
         }
 
-        $this->getfield = '?' . http_build_query($params);
+        $this->getfield = '?' . http_build_query($params, '', '&');
 
         return $this;
     }
@@ -203,9 +204,9 @@ public function getPostfields()
      */
     public function buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
     {
-        if (!in_array(strtolower($requestMethod), array('post', 'get')))
+        if (!in_array(strtolower($requestMethod), array('post', 'get', 'put', 'delete')))
         {
-            throw new Exception('Request method must be either POST or GET');
+            throw new Exception('Request method must be either POST, GET or PUT or DELETE');
         }
 
         $consumer_key              = $this->consumer_key;
@@ -253,9 +254,9 @@ public function buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
         $oauth_signature = base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha1', $base_info, $composite_key, true));
         $oauth['oauth_signature'] = $oauth_signature;
 
-        $this->url = $url;
+        $this->url           = $url;
         $this->requestMethod = $requestMethod;
-        $this->oauth = $oauth;
+        $this->oauth         = $oauth;
 
         return $this;
     }
@@ -282,17 +283,22 @@ public function performRequest($return = true, $curlOptions = array())
         $getfield = $this->getGetfield();
         $postfields = $this->getPostfields();
 
-        $options = array(
+        if (in_array(strtolower($this->requestMethod), array('put', 'delete')))
+        {
+            $curlOptions[CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST] = $this->requestMethod;
+        }
+
+        $options = $curlOptions + array(
             CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $header,
             CURLOPT_HEADER => false,
             CURLOPT_URL => $this->url,
             CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
             CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 10,
-        ) + $curlOptions;
+        );
 
         if (!is_null($postfields))
         {
-            $options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = http_build_query($postfields);
+            $options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = http_build_query($postfields, '', '&');
         }
         else
         {
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 0d99c99..2002abe 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
         }
     ],
     "autoload": {
-        "files": ["TwitterAPIExchange.php"]
+        "classmap": ["TwitterAPIExchange.php"]
     },
     "extra": {
         "branch-alias": {
diff --git a/test/TwitterAPIExchangeTest.php b/test/TwitterAPIExchangeTest.php
index 2363d10..24121d6 100644
--- a/test/TwitterAPIExchangeTest.php
+++ b/test/TwitterAPIExchangeTest.php
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ public function testStatusesHomeTimeline()
     {
         $url    = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json';
         $method = 'GET';
-        $params = '?user_id=3232926711&max_id=595155660494471168';
+        $params = '?user_id=3232926711&max_id=756123701888839681';
 
         $data     = $this->exchange->request($url, $method, $params);
         $expected = "Test Tweet";
@@ -304,4 +304,35 @@ public function testIssue70()
         $data = $this->exchange->request($url, $method, $params);
         $this->assertContains('created_at', $data);
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+
+    /**
+     * Thanks to Sharath at eywamedia for bringint this to my attention
+     */
+    public function testPut()
+    {
+        $url    = 'https://ads-api.twitter.com/1/accounts/hkk5/campaigns/8zwv';
+        $method = 'PUT';
+        $params = array (
+            'name'   => 'Important',
+            'paused' => true
+        );
+
+        $data = $this->exchange->request($url, $method, $params);
+
+        /** If we get this back, then it looks like we can support PUT! :-) **/
+        $this->assertContains('UNAUTHORIZED_CLIENT_APPLICATION', $data);
+    }
+
+    public function testDelete()
+    {
+        $params = array();
+
+        // foobaa is sandbox Ads account id
+        $url = 'https://ads-api-sandbox.twitter.com/1/accounts/foobaa';
+        $method = 'DELETE';
+
+        $data = $this->exchange->request($url, $method, $params);
+
+        $this->assertContains('UNAUTHORIZED_CLIENT_APPLICATION', $data);
+    }
+}