diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 04e049d..9b431fe 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+    - Remove reliance on MooseX::Aliases (issue #35)
     - Use Class::Load to replace deprecated Class::Mop method (issue #35)
     - Add missing dependency: LWP::Protocol::https (issue #25)
     - Fix OAuth failure for UTF8 params (issue #21)
diff --git a/lib/Net/Twitter/Core.pm b/lib/Net/Twitter/Core.pm
index 645822a..1b8e8cd 100644
--- a/lib/Net/Twitter/Core.pm
+++ b/lib/Net/Twitter/Core.pm
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ our $VERSION = '4.00007';
 
 use 5.008001;
 use Moose;
-use MooseX::Aliases;
 use Carp::Clan qw/^Net::Twitter/;
 use JSON;
 use URI::Escape;
@@ -24,10 +23,8 @@ use namespace::autoclean;
 
 has useragent_class => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'ro', default => 'LWP::UserAgent' );
 has useragent_args  => ( isa => 'HashRef', is => 'ro', default => sub { {} } );
-has username        => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'rw', predicate => 'has_username',
-                         alias => 'user' );
-has password        => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'rw', predicate => 'has_password',
-                         alias => 'pass' );
+has username        => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'rw', predicate => 'has_username' );
+has password        => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'rw', predicate => 'has_password' );
 has ssl             => ( isa => 'Bool', is => 'ro', default => 0 );
 has netrc           => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'ro', predicate => 'has_netrc' );
 has netrc_machine   => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'ro', default => 'api.twitter.com' );
@@ -65,6 +62,19 @@ around BUILDARGS => sub {
 
     my %options = @_ == 1 ? %{$_[0]} : @_;
 
+    # aliases
+    for ( [ user => 'username' ], [ pass => 'password' ] ) {
+        my ( $alias, $base ) = @$_;
+        if ( exists $options{$alias} ) {
+            if ( !defined $options{$base} ) {
+                $options{$base} = delete $options{$alias};
+            }
+            else {
+                cluck "Both $base and $alias provided. Ignoring $alias";
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     if ( delete $options{identica} ) {
         %options = (
             apiurl => 'http://identi.ca/api',
diff --git a/t/aliases.t b/t/aliases.t
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98dc5f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/aliases.t
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!perl
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+use Net::Twitter;
+use Test::More;
+
+my $nt = Net::Twitter->new(
+    user => 'foo',
+    pass => 'bar',
+);
+
+is $nt->username, 'foo';
+is $nt->password, 'bar';
+
+done_testing;