diff --git a/scraper/twitter/requirements.txt b/scraper/twitter/requirements.txt
index 0ec377f8..e9721ee0 100644
--- a/scraper/twitter/requirements.txt
+++ b/scraper/twitter/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 requests==2.26.0
 google-cloud-datastore==2.4.0
 mysql-connector-python==8.0.22
-protobuf==3.19.1
+protobuf==5.28.0
 configparser==5.2.0
 
 # tests deps