diff --git a/optional-requirements.txt b/optional-requirements.txt
index 09495ce..6495aa1 100644
--- a/optional-requirements.txt
+++ b/optional-requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ encoding-cleaner==0.4
 pyftpdlib==0.7.0
 openpyxl==1.5.7
 boto==2.2.2
-tweepy==1.9
+tweepy==3.0
 xlrd==0.7.3
 pygeoip==0.2.3
 httpagentparser==1.0.5