diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ad1b8f7..9235e07 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ PyYAML==3.11
 redis==2.10.3
 simplejson==3.8.0
 django-tinymce
-celery==3.1.18
+celery==5.2.2
 ipython==4.0.0
 tweepy==3.4.0