diff --git a/server/verifyTweet.php b/server/verifyTweet.php
index bced5ff..669a83e 100644
--- a/server/verifyTweet.php
+++ b/server/verifyTweet.php
@@ -7,24 +7,27 @@ $tweetId = urlencode($_GET["id"]);
 
 $check = "\[Verifying my OpenPGP key: openpgp4fpr:$fingerprint\]";
 
-$ch = curl_init();
-curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json', $twitter_api_auth));
-curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
-curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.twitter.com/labs/2/tweets/$tweetId?tweet.fields=author_id,created_at,id,source,text");
-$result = curl_exec($ch);
-curl_close($ch);
-$data = json_decode($result, true);
-
 $response = array();
 $response["verified"] = false;
 $response["fingerprint"] = $fingerprint;
 $response["tweetId"] = $tweetId;
 $response["text"] = $data["data"]["text"];
 
-if (preg_match("/{$check}/i", $data["data"]["text"])) {
-    $response["verified"] = true;
+if (!is_null($twitter_api_auth)) {
+    $ch = curl_init();
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json', $twitter_api_auth));
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.twitter.com/labs/2/tweets/$tweetId?tweet.fields=author_id,created_at,id,source,text");
+    $result = curl_exec($ch);
+    curl_close($ch);
+    $data = json_decode($result, true);
+    
+    if (preg_match("/{$check}/i", $data["data"]["text"])) {
+        $response["verified"] = true;
+    }
 }
+
 echo json_encode($response);
 
 ?>