diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2ed5158..ce9bbe2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ packaging==16.8
 pymongo==3.4.0
 pyparsing==2.1.10
 python-twitter==3.2.1
-requests==2.12.5
+requests==2.20.0
 requests-oauthlib==0.7.0
 six==1.10.0
 Werkzeug==0.11.15