diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 469c4ad..0a528e0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1623,15 +1623,15 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "scootaloo"
-version = "0.2.1"
+version = "0.2.0"
 dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "egg-mode",
  "elefren",
- "futures 0.3.5",
  "htmlescape",
  "reqwest",
  "serde",
+ "tokio 0.2.13",
  "toml",
 ]
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5994631..e937f5e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "scootaloo"
-version = "0.2.1"
+version = "0.2.0"
 authors = ["VC <veretcle+framagit@mateu.be>"]
 edition = "2018"
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 toml = "^0.5"
 clap = "^2.33"
 
-futures = "^0.3"
+tokio = "^0.2"
 egg-mode = "^0.14"
 
 elefren = "^0.20"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index c262876..07ab08b 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ use std::{
     error::Error,
 };
 
-// futures
-use futures::executor::block_on;
+//tokio
+use tokio::runtime::Runtime;
 
 // toml
 use serde::Deserialize;
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ fn get_oauth2_token(config: &Config) -> Token {
 /// Get twitter user timeline
 fn get_user_timeline(config: &Config, token: Token, lid: Option<u64>) -> Result<Vec<Tweet>, Box<dyn Error>> {
     // fix the page size to 200 as it is the maximum Twitter authorizes
-    let (_timeline, feed) = block_on(user_timeline(UserID::from(String::from(&config.twitter.username)), true, false, &token)
+    let mut rt  = Runtime::new()?;
+    let (_timeline, feed) = rt.block_on(user_timeline(UserID::from(String::from(&config.twitter.username)), true, false, &token)
                 .with_page_size(200)
                 .older(lid))?;