diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 470cab8ea..e1cfec355 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ name = "Scrapy"
 dynamic = ["version"]
 description = "A high-level Web Crawling and Web Scraping framework"
 dependencies = [
-    "Twisted>=21.7.0",
+    # Twisted pinned until Scrapy is updated for its internal TLS API changes
+    "Twisted>=21.7.0,<=25.5.0",
     "cryptography>=37.0.0",
     "cssselect>=0.9.1",
     "defusedxml>=0.7.1",