diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 34a1f74..5dbe2f3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ postmonkey==1.0a4
 psycopg2==2.4.2
 python-gflags==2.0
 python-googleanalytics==1.0.2
-requests==0.13.5
+requests==2.20.0
 -e git+https://github.com/bear/python-twitter.git#egg=python-twitter