diff --git a/appnet/appnet.php b/appnet/appnet.php
index e375c8d39..52f754371 100644
--- a/appnet/appnet.php
+++ b/appnet/appnet.php
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ function appnet_send(&$a,&$b) {
 
 		if (isset($post["image"])) {
 			$img_str = fetch_url($post['image'],true, $redirects, 10);
-			$tempfile = tempnam(get_config("system","temppath"), "cache");
+			$tempfile = tempnam(get_temppath(), "cache");
 			file_put_contents($tempfile, $img_str);
 
 			try {
diff --git a/privacy_image_cache/privacy_image_cache.php b/privacy_image_cache/privacy_image_cache.php
index a0cd81073..0a6d8be1d 100644
--- a/privacy_image_cache/privacy_image_cache.php
+++ b/privacy_image_cache/privacy_image_cache.php
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ function privacy_image_cache_init() {
 		$redirects = 0;
 		$img_str = fetch_url($_REQUEST['url'],true, $redirects, 10);
 
-		$tempfile = tempnam(get_config("system","temppath"), "cache");
+		$tempfile = tempnam(get_temppath(), "cache");
 		file_put_contents($tempfile, $img_str);
 		$mime = image_type_to_mime_type(exif_imagetype($tempfile));
 		unlink($tempfile);
diff --git a/statusnet/codebird.php b/statusnet/codebird.php
index 14d231d7f..cba5f9360 100644
--- a/statusnet/codebird.php
+++ b/statusnet/codebird.php
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ class CodebirdSN
                 }
 
 		// To-Do
-		$tempfile = tempnam(get_config("system","temppath"), "mimecheck");
+		$tempfile = tempnam(get_temppath(), "mimecheck");
 		file_put_contents($tempfile, $data);
 		$mime = image_type_to_mime_type(exif_imagetype($tempfile));
 		unlink($tempfile);
diff --git a/statusnet/statusnet.php b/statusnet/statusnet.php
index b619a0421..7293f882c 100644
--- a/statusnet/statusnet.php
+++ b/statusnet/statusnet.php
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ function statusnet_post_hook(&$a,&$b) {
 
 		if ($image != "") {
 			$img_str = fetch_url($image);
-			$tempfile = tempnam(get_config("system","temppath"), "cache");
+			$tempfile = tempnam(get_temppath(), "cache");
 			file_put_contents($tempfile, $img_str);
 			$postdata = array("status" => $msg, "media[]" => $tempfile);
 		} else
@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ function statusnet_convertmsg($a, $body, $no_tags = false) {
 			else {
 				$img_str = fetch_url($expanded_url, true, $redirects, 4);
 
-				$tempfile = tempnam(get_config("system","temppath"), "cache");
+				$tempfile = tempnam(get_temppath(), "cache");
 				file_put_contents($tempfile, $img_str);
 				$mime = image_type_to_mime_type(exif_imagetype($tempfile));
 				unlink($tempfile);
diff --git a/twitter/twitter.php b/twitter/twitter.php
index 6e98888b0..b6d0d3af3 100644
--- a/twitter/twitter.php
+++ b/twitter/twitter.php
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ function twitter_post_hook(&$a,&$b) {
 		if(strlen($msg) and ($image != "")) {
 			$img_str = fetch_url($image);
 
-			$tempfile = tempnam(get_config("system","temppath"), "cache");
+			$tempfile = tempnam(get_temppath(), "cache");
 			file_put_contents($tempfile, $img_str);
 
 			// Twitter had changed something so that the old library doesn't work anymore
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ function twitter_expand_entities($a, $body, $item, $no_tags = false, $picture) {
 				else {
 					$img_str = fetch_url($expanded_url, true, $redirects, 4);
 
-					$tempfile = tempnam(get_config("system","temppath"), "cache");
+					$tempfile = tempnam(get_temppath(), "cache");
 					file_put_contents($tempfile, $img_str);
 					$mime = image_type_to_mime_type(exif_imagetype($tempfile));
 					unlink($tempfile);