diff --git a/chirpy/api.py b/chirpy/api.py
index 25d2f43..8c68df6 100644
--- a/chirpy/api.py
+++ b/chirpy/api.py
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import re
 import requests
+import ssl
+
+from urllib3.util.ssl_ import create_urllib3_context
 
 from functools import partial
 
@@ -21,6 +24,21 @@
 class _DEFAULT(object):
     pass
 
+# fix for a sudden twitter outage on 8/4/2023
+class TwitterNoSSLSessionTicketExtension(requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.ssl_context = create_urllib3_context()
+        self.ssl_context.options &= ~ssl.OP_NO_TICKET
+        super().__init__()
+
+    def init_poolmanager(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        kwargs["ssl_context"] = self.ssl_context
+        super().init_poolmanager(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def proxy_manager_for(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        kwargs["ssl_context"] = self.ssl_context
+        return super().proxy_manager_for(*args, **kwargs)
+
 class TwitterError(Exception):
     """
     Base Exception thrown by the Twitter object when there is a
@@ -187,17 +205,22 @@ def __call__(self, **kwargs):
         headers = {'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip'}
         headers.update(self.headers)
 
+        adapter = TwitterNoSSLSessionTicketExtension()
+        req_session = requests.Session()
+        req_session.mount('https://api.twitter.com', adapter)
+        req_session.mount('http://api.twitter.com', adapter)
+
         if json_body is not None:
             headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
 
         if method == 'GET' or method == 'DELETE':
-            request = partial(requests.request, params=kwargs)
+            request = partial(req_session.request, params=kwargs)
         elif method == 'POST':
             post_data = json.dumps(json_body) if json_body is not None else kwargs
-            request = partial(requests.request, data=post_data)
+            request = partial(req_session.request, data=post_data)
         elif method == 'PUT':
             put_data = json.dumps(json_body) if json_body is not None else kwargs
-            request = partial(requests.request, params=kwargs, data=put_data)
+            request = partial(req_session.request, params=kwargs, data=put_data)
 
         resp = request(method, uriBase, headers=headers, timeout=_timeout,
             proxies=self.proxies, auth=self.auth)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 03910a6..d5d26f6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 import sys, os
 
-version = '2.0.2'
+version = '2.1.0'
 
 install_requires = [
         'requests>=1.2.3',