Jefferson-Henrique / Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-python

403: Forbidden when using getTweets python function

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Description

I am getting this error for accessing a user profile with the code:

```
tweetCriteria = got.manager.TweetCriteria().setUsername('barackobama').setMaxTweets(1)
tweets = got.manager.TweetManager.getTweets(tweetCriteria)
```

Error is:
```
An error occured during an HTTP request: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Try to open in browser: https://twitter.com/search?q=%20from%3Abarackobama&src=typd
```

Has twitter updated its scraping detection? Please help

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