diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-twitter/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-twitter/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6210c13f56e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-twitter/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, fetchpatch
+, pytestrunner
+, future
+, requests
+, responses
+, requests_oauthlib
+, pytest
+, hypothesis
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "python-twitter";
+  version = "3.5";
+
+  # No tests in PyPi Tarball
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "bear";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "08ydmf6dcd416cvw6xq1wxsz6b9s21f2mf9fh3y4qz9swj6n9h8z";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    # Fix tests. Remove with the next release
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/bear/python-twitter/commit/f7eb83d9dca3ba0ee93e629ba5322732f99a3a30.patch";
+      sha256 = "008b1bd03wwngs554qb136lsasihql3yi7vlcacmk4s5fmr6klqw";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pytestrunner ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ future requests requests_oauthlib ];
+  checkInputs = [ pytest responses hypothesis ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A Python wrapper around the Twitter API";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/bear/python-twitter";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.marsam ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 8a28f48e015b..b596f6b24c01 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5714,6 +5714,8 @@ in {
 
   twitter-common-options = callPackage ../development/python-modules/twitter-common-options { };
 
+  python-twitter = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-twitter { };
+
   umalqurra = callPackage ../development/python-modules/umalqurra { };
 
   unicodecsv = callPackage ../development/python-modules/unicodecsv { };