diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/twitterapi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/twitterapi/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f7c5d4d2e8b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/twitterapi/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, requests
+, requests_oauthlib
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "twitterapi";
+  version = "2.6.6";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "geduldig";
+    repo = "TwitterAPI";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0ib4yggigpkn8rp71j94xyxl20smh3d04xsa9fhyh0mws4ri33j8";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    requests
+    requests_oauthlib
+  ];
+
+  # Tests are interacting with the Twitter API
+  doCheck = false;
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "TwitterAPI" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Python wrapper for Twitter's REST and Streaming APIs";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/geduldig/TwitterAPI";
+    license = with licenses; [ mit ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fab ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 88b66b1420e9..f9adca774f2b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -8031,6 +8031,8 @@ in {
 
   twitter-common-options = callPackage ../development/python-modules/twitter-common-options { };
 
+  twitterapi = callPackage ../development/python-modules/twitterapi { };
+
   twofish = callPackage ../development/python-modules/twofish { };
 
   txaio = callPackage ../development/python-modules/txaio { };