Unable to make Twitter account global

In 7.x-6.1 I am unable to make a Twitter account global. The following patch solves this for me ...

--- twitter/twitter.pages.inc	2015-09-04 19:11:28.000000000 +1000
+++ twitter/twitter.pages.inc	2015-10-05 16:36:06.000000000 +1100
@@ -351,6 +351,7 @@
     $twitter_account = entity_load_single('twitter_account', $account['twitter_uid']);
     if (empty($account['delete'])) {
       $twitter_account->import = $account['import'];
+      $twitter_account->is_global = $account['is_global'];
       if (isset($account['mentions'])) {
         $twitter_account->mentions = $account['mentions'];
       }