diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
index 5d8849e..7ff089a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -65,8 +65,4 @@ jobs:
           VXTWITTER_URL: ${{ secrets.VXTWITTER_URL }}
           VXTWITTER_COMBINATION_METHOD: ${{ secrets.VXTWITTER_COMBINATION_METHOD }}
           VXTWITTER_GIF_CONVERT_API: ${{ secrets.VXTWITTER_GIF_CONVERT_API }}
-          VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_CONSUMER_KEY: ${{ secrets.VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_CONSUMER_KEY }}
-          VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_CONSUMER_SECRET: ${{ secrets.VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_CONSUMER_SECRET }}
-          VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_TOKEN }}
-          VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_TOKEN_SECRET: ${{ secrets.VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_TOKEN_SECRET }}
           VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_TOKENS: ${{ secrets.VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_TOKENS }}
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diff --git a/config.json b/config.json
index c4e3e1d..6f60eca 100644
--- a/config.json
+++ b/config.json
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
         "table": "[database table here]",
         "url": "https://vxtwitter.com",
         "combination_method": "local",
-        "gifConvertAPI": "local"
+        "gifConvertAPI": "local",
+        "workaroundTokens":null
     }
 }
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diff --git a/configHandler.py b/configHandler.py
index d17ecc8..f8e656b 100644
--- a/configHandler.py
+++ b/configHandler.py
@@ -13,13 +13,7 @@ if ('RUNNING_SERVERLESS' in os.environ and os.environ['RUNNING_SERVERLESS'] == '
                 "url": os.getenv("VXTWITTER_URL","https://vxtwitter.com"),
                 "combination_method": os.getenv("VXTWITTER_COMBINATION_METHOD","local"), # can either be 'local' or a URL to a server handling requests in the same format
                 "gifConvertAPI":os.getenv("VXTWITTER_GIF_CONVERT_API",""),
-                "workaroundTokens":os.getenv("VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_TOKENS",None),
-                "workaroundKeys":{
-                    "consumerKey":os.getenv("VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_CONSUMER_KEY"),
-                    "consumerSecret":os.getenv("VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_CONSUMER_SECRET"),
-                    "accessToken":os.getenv("VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_TOKEN"),
-                    "accessTokenSecret":os.getenv("VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_TOKEN_SECRET")
-                }
+                "workaroundTokens":os.getenv("VXTWITTER_WORKAROUND_TOKENS",None)
             }
         }
 else:
@@ -37,7 +31,7 @@ else:
                     "url": "https://vxtwitter.com",
                     "combination_method": "local", # can either be 'local' or a URL to a server handling requests in the same format
                     "gifConvertAPI":"",
-                    "workaroundKeys":{"consumerKey":"","consumerSecret":"","accessToken":"","accessTokenSecret":""}
+                    "workaroundTokens":None
                 }
             }
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 42198a5..1e12ca2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@ requests==2.31.0
 Pillow==10.0.0
 Flask==2.2.3
 Flask-Cors==4.0.0
-yt-dlp==2022.7.18
-twitter==1.19.6
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+yt-dlp==2022.7.18
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diff --git a/twitfix.py b/twitfix.py
index a628c45..5e69610 100644
--- a/twitfix.py
+++ b/twitfix.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import twExtract as twExtract
 from configHandler import config
 from cache import addVnfToLinkCache,getVnfFromLinkCache
 from yt_dlp.utils import ExtractorError
-from twitter.api import TwitterHTTPError
 import vxlogging as log
 import zipfile
 import traceback