diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ffef619c..d4e7e475 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ requests
 spamwatch
 speedtest-cli>=2.0.2
 sqlalchemy
-telethon
+telethon==1.16.4
 telegraph
 ujson
 wget