diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d458256..766c9d0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ requests-oauthlib==0.4.1
 simplejson==3.6.5
 tweepy==3.2.0
 Unirest==1.1.7
-urllib3==1.8.3
+urllib3==1.24.2
 virtualenv==1.11.6
 virtualenv-clone==0.2.5
 virtualenvwrapper==4.3