RequireJS text plugin - error when loading HTML template

I'm using RequireJS with the text plugin for my HTML-templates.

define(
  [
    'text!./../../templates/twitterTemplate.html',
    'jquery',
    'underscore',
    'backbone'
  ],

  function(twitterTemplate, $, _, Backbone) {

    var compiled = _.template(twitterTemplate);

    return Backbone.View.extend({
      el: '#tweets',

      render: function() {
        this.$el.append(compiled(this.model));

        return this;
      }
    });
  }
);

Everything works fine when running in a browser. But when I run my jasmine-tests from Node.js, I get the following error when Node.js require is trying to load the twitterTemplate.html file:

(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { <h4><%= title %>
                                                              ^
   Message:
     SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
   Stacktrace:
     SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
    at Module._compile (module.js:437:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:362:17)

I've probably misunderstood something. Grateful for answers that helps me solve this issue.

Thanks!