diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 19741e6e..b08d0391 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ distutils.core.setup(
     url="http://www.tornadoweb.org/",
     download_url="http://github.com/downloads/facebook/tornado/tornado-%s.tar.gz" % version,
     license="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0",
-    description="Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and and tools that power FriendFeed",
+    description="Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.",
     classifiers=[
         'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',