diff --git a/backend/requirements/base.in b/backend/requirements/base.in
index f99794f06..f89e56682 100644
--- a/backend/requirements/base.in
+++ b/backend/requirements/base.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ djangorestframework==3.13.1
 drf-jwt==1.19.1
 psycopg2==2.9.1
 Faker==8.11.0
-Twisted==22.1
+Twisted==22.4.0
 gunicorn==20.1.0
 uvicorn[standard]==0.15.0
 websockets==10.3
diff --git a/backend/requirements/base.txt b/backend/requirements/base.txt
index 6c54b1b4f..0e615f8cc 100644
--- a/backend/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements/base.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ botocore==1.23.54
     # via
     #   boto3
     #   s3transfer
-cached-property==1.5.2
-    # via kombu
 celery[redis]==5.2.3
     # via
     #   -r base.in
@@ -149,14 +147,6 @@ idna==3.3
     #   hyperlink
     #   requests
     #   twisted
-importlib-metadata==4.11.2
-    # via
-    #   click
-    #   jsonschema
-    #   kombu
-    #   redis
-importlib-resources==5.4.0
-    # via jsonschema
 incremental==21.3.0
     # via twisted
 inflection==0.5.1
@@ -261,22 +251,14 @@ text-unidecode==1.3
     # via faker
 tqdm==4.62.3
     # via -r base.in
-twisted[tls]==22.1.0
+twisted[tls]==22.4.0
     # via
     #   -r base.in
     #   daphne
 txaio==22.2.1
     # via autobahn
 typing-extensions==4.1.1
-    # via
-    #   asgiref
-    #   async-timeout
-    #   drf-spectacular
-    #   h11
-    #   importlib-metadata
-    #   jsonschema
-    #   twisted
-    #   uvicorn
+    # via twisted
 unicodecsv==0.14.1
     # via -r base.in
 uritemplate==4.1.1
@@ -306,10 +288,7 @@ websockets==10.3
 wrapt==1.13.3
     # via deprecated
 zipp==3.5.0
-    # via
-    #   -r base.in
-    #   importlib-metadata
-    #   importlib-resources
+    # via -r base.in
 zope-interface==5.4.0
     # via twisted