diff --git a/modules/tweets.py b/modules/tweets.py
deleted file mode 100644
index fc981c37..00000000
--- a/modules/tweets.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,109 +0,0 @@
-# --require-config twitter-api-key
-# --require-config twitter-api-secret
-# --require-config twitter-access-token
-# --require-config twitter-access-secret
-
-import datetime, re, time, traceback
-import twitter
-import Utils
-
-REGEX_TWITTERURL = re.compile(
-    "https?://(?:www\.)?twitter.com/[^/]+/status/(\d+)", re.I)
-
-
-class Module(object):
-
-    def __init__(self, bot, events, exports):
-        self.bot = bot
-        self.events = events
-
-        events.on("received").on("command").on("tweet", "tw"
-                                               ).hook(self.tweet,
-                                                      help="Find a tweet",
-                                                      usage="[@username/URL/ID]")
-
-    def make_timestamp(self, s):
-        seconds_since = time.time() - datetime.datetime.strptime(s,
-                                                                 "%a %b %d "
-                                                                 "%H:%M:%S %z "
-                                                                 "%Y").timestamp()
-        since, unit = Utils.time_unit(seconds_since)
-        return "%s %s ago" % (since, unit)
-
-    def tweet(self, event):
-        api_key = self.bot.config["twitter-api-key"]
-        api_secret = self.bot.config["twitter-api-secret"]
-        access_token = self.bot.config["twitter-access-token"]
-        access_secret = self.bot.config["twitter-access-secret"]
-
-        if event["args"]:
-            target = event["args"]
-        else:
-            target = event["buffer"].find(REGEX_TWITTERURL)
-            if target:
-                target = target.message
-        if target:
-            twitter_object = twitter.Twitter(auth=twitter.OAuth(
-                access_token, access_secret, api_key, api_secret))
-            url_match = re.search(REGEX_TWITTERURL, target)
-            if url_match or target.isdigit():
-                tweet_id = url_match.group(1) if url_match else target
-                try:
-                    tweet = twitter_object.statuses.show(id=tweet_id)
-                except:
-                    traceback.print_exc()
-                    tweet = None
-            else:
-                if target.startswith("@"):
-                    taret = target[1:]
-                try:
-                    tweet = twitter_object.statuses.user_timeline(
-                        screen_name=target, count=1)[0]
-                except:
-                    traceback.print_exc()
-                    tweet = None
-            if tweet:
-                linked_id = tweet["id"]
-                username = "@%s" % tweet["user"]["screen_name"]
-
-                url_shortener_link = None
-                chopped_uname = username[1:]
-                tweet_link = "https://twitter.com/%s/status/%s" % (
-                        chopped_uname, linked_id)
-
-                url_shortener_link = self.events.on("get").on(
-                        "shortlink").call(
-                        url=tweet_link)
-
-                url_shortener_link = "" if url_shortener_link == None else \
-                    "-- " + url_shortener_link[0]
-
-
-                if "retweeted_status" in tweet:
-                    original_username = "@%s" % tweet["retweeted_status"
-                    ]["user"]["screen_name"]
-                    original_text = tweet["retweeted_status"]["text"]
-                    retweet_timestamp = self.make_timestamp(tweet[
-                                                                "created_at"])
-                    original_timestamp = self.make_timestamp(tweet[
-                                                                 "retweeted_status"][
-                                                                 "created_at"])
-                    event["stdout"].write(
-                        "(%s (%s) retweeted %s (%s)) %s %s" % (
-                            username, retweet_timestamp,
-                            original_username, original_timestamp,
-                            original_text,
-                            url_shortener_link))
-                else:
-                    event["stdout"].write("(%s, %s) %s %s" %
-                                              (username,
-                                               self.make_timestamp(
-                                                   tweet["created_at"]
-                                               ),
-                                                tweet["text"],
-                                                url_shortener_link)
-                                          )
-            else:
-                event["stderr"].write("Invalid tweet identifiers provided")
-        else:
-            event["stderr"].write("No tweet provided to get information about")