diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,17 +4,18 @@
 #
 #    pip-compile requirements.in
 #
-dominate==2.1.16          # via flask-bootstrap
+dominate==2.1.17          # via flask-bootstrap
 flask-bootstrap==3.3.5.7
-flask-httpauth==2.7.0
+flask-httpauth==3.1.0
 flask==0.10.1
 itsdangerous==0.24        # via flask
 jinja2==2.8               # via flask
 jsonschema==2.5.1
 markupsafe==0.23          # via jinja2
 oauthlib==1.0.3           # via requests-oauthlib
-python-twitter==2.2
-requests-oauthlib==0.5.0  # via python-twitter
-requests==2.8.1           # via python-twitter, requests-oauthlib
+requests-oauthlib==0.6.1  # via tweepy
+requests==2.9.1           # via requests-oauthlib, tweepy
+six==1.10.0               # via tweepy
+tweepy==3.5.0
 visitor==0.1.2            # via flask-bootstrap
-werkzeug==0.11.2          # via flask
+werkzeug==0.11.4          # via flask
diff --git a/spaceapi/state.py b/spaceapi/state.py
--- a/spaceapi/state.py
+++ b/spaceapi/state.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from time import time
 
 from flask import Blueprint, jsonify, request, current_app, abort
 
-#import twitter
+import tweepy
 
 from .utils import ActiveStatus
 from .auth import httpauth
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ state_views = Blueprint('state', __name_
 ALLOWED_STATE_KEYS = frozenset(('open', 'lastchange',
                                 'trigger_person', 'message'))
 
-#twitter_api = twitter.Api()
 
 def set_new_state(key, value):
     active = ActiveStatus()
@@ -24,18 +23,21 @@ def set_new_state(key, value):
         if key == 'open':
             active['state']['lastchange'] = int(time())
 
-            # if 'twitter_consumer_key' in current_app.config:
-            #     twitter_api.SetCredentials(
-            #         consumer_key=current_app.config['twitter_consumer_key'],
-            #         consumer_secret=current_app.config['twitter_consumer_secret'],
-            #         access_token_key=current_app.config['twitter_access_token_key'],
-            #         access_token_secret=current_app.config['twitter_access_token_secret']
-            #     )
-            #
-            #     if value:
-            #         twitter_api.PostUpdate('The space is now open!')
-            #     else:
-            #         twitter_api.PostUpdate('The space is now closed!')
+            if 'twitter_consumer_key' in current_app.config:
+                auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(
+                    current_app.config['twitter_consumer_key'],
+                    current_app.config['twitter_consumer_secret']
+                )
+                auth.set_access_token(
+                    current_app.config['twitter_access_token_key'],
+                    current_app.config['twitter.access_token_secret']
+                )
+                api = tweepy.API(auth)
+                
+                if value:
+                    api.update_status('The space is now open!')
+                else:
+                    api.update_status('The space is now closed!')
 
         active.save_last_state()
         return jsonify(active)