diff --git a/active_bots/twitterDMs.py b/active_bots/twitterDMs.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 8282fc5..0000000
--- a/active_bots/twitterDMs.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-import logging
-import tweepy
-import re
-import requests
-import report
-from time import time
-from bot import Bot
-
-
-logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-
-class TwitterDMListener(Bot):
-
-    def get_api(self, user):
-        keys = user.get_twitter_credentials()
-        auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key=keys[0],
-                                   consumer_secret=keys[1])
-        auth.set_access_token(keys[2],  # access_token_key
-                              keys[3])  # access_token_secret
-        return tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)
-
-    def crawl(self, user):
-        """
-        crawls all Tweets which mention the bot from the twitter rest API.
-
-        :return: reports: (list of report.Report objects)
-        """
-        reports = []
-        try:
-            if user.get_last_twitter_request() + 60 > time():
-                return reports
-        except TypeError:
-            user.set_last_twitter_request(time())
-        try:
-            api = self.get_api(user)
-        except TypeError:
-            return reports  # no twitter account for this user.
-        last_dm = user.get_seen_dm()
-        try:
-            if last_dm is None:
-                mentions = api.direct_messages()
-            else:
-                mentions = api.direct_messages(since_id=last_dm[0])
-            user.set_last_twitter_request(time())
-            for status in mentions:
-                text = re.sub(
-                       "(?<=^|(?<=[^a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]))@([A-Za-z]+[A-Za-z0-9-_]+)",
-                       "", status.text)
-                reports.append(report.Report(status.author.screen_name,
-                                             "twitterDM",
-                                             text,
-                                             status.id,
-                                             status.created_at))
-            user.save_seen_dm(last_dm)
-            return reports
-        except tweepy.RateLimitError:
-            logger.error("Twitter API Error: Rate Limit Exceeded",
-                         exc_info=True)
-            # :todo implement rate limiting
-        except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
-            logger.error("Twitter API Error: Bad Connection", exc_info=True)
-        except tweepy.TweepError as terror:
-            # Waiting for https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/pull/1109 to get
-            # merged, so direct messages work again
-            if terror.api_code == 34:
-                return reports
-            logger.error("Twitter API Error: General Error", exc_info=True)
-        return reports
-
-    def post(self, user, report):
-        pass