diff --git a/twitter/api.py b/twitter/api.py
index b1268bcf..7c422cdb 100755
--- a/twitter/api.py
+++ b/twitter/api.py
@@ -2909,8 +2909,7 @@ def GetUser(self,
             return User.NewFromJsonDict(data)
 
     def GetDirectMessages(self,
-                          since_id=None,
-                          max_id=None,
+                          cursor=None,
                           count=None,
                           include_entities=True,
                           skip_status=False,
@@ -2920,53 +2919,27 @@ def GetDirectMessages(self,
         """Returns a list of the direct messages sent to the authenticating user.
 
         Args:
-          since_id:
-            Returns results with an ID greater than (that is, more recent
-            than) the specified ID. There are limits to the number of
-            Tweets which can be accessed through the API. If the limit of
-            Tweets has occurred since the since_id, the since_id will be
-            forced to the oldest ID available. [Optional]
-          max_id:
-            Returns results with an ID less than (that is, older than) or
-            equal to the specified ID. [Optional]
+          cursor:
+            For paging through result sets greater than 1 page, use the
+            “next_cursor” property from the previous request. [Optional]
           count:
             Specifies the number of direct messages to try and retrieve, up to a
             maximum of 200. The value of count is best thought of as a limit to the
             number of Tweets to return because suspended or deleted content is
             removed after the count has been applied. [Optional]
-          include_entities:
-            The entities node will be omitted when set to False.
-            [Optional]
-          skip_status:
-            When set to True statuses will not be included in the returned user
-            objects. [Optional]
-          full_text:
-            When set to True full message will be included in the returned message
-            object if message length is bigger than CHARACTER_LIMIT characters. [Optional]
-          page:
-            If you want more than 200 messages, you can use this and get 20 messages
-            each time. You must recall it and increment the page value until it
-            return nothing. You can't use count option with it. First value is 1 and
-            not 0.
           return_json (bool, optional):
             If True JSON data will be returned, instead of twitter.User
 
         Returns:
           A sequence of twitter.DirectMessage instances
         """
-        url = '%s/direct_messages.json' % self.base_url
+        url = '%s/direct_messages/events/list.json' % self.base_url
         parameters = {
-            'full_text': bool(full_text),
-            'include_entities': bool(include_entities),
-            'max_id': max_id,
-            'since_id': since_id,
-            'skip_status': bool(skip_status),
+            'cursor': cursor
         }
 
         if count:
             parameters['count'] = enf_type('count', int, count)
-        if page:
-            parameters['page'] = enf_type('page', int, page)
 
         resp = self._RequestUrl(url, 'GET', data=parameters)
         data = self._ParseAndCheckTwitter(resp.content.decode('utf-8'))