diff --git a/docs/topics/images.rst b/docs/topics/images.rst
index f7f33b687..28be43e03 100644
--- a/docs/topics/images.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/images.rst
@@ -250,9 +250,6 @@ Here are the methods that you should override in your custom Images Pipeline:
 
         * ``checksum`` - a `MD5 hash`_ of the image contents
 
-      .. _Twisted Failure: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/8.2.0/api/twisted.python.failure.Failure.html
-      .. _MD5 hash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
-
       The list of tuples received by :meth:`~item_completed` is
       guaranteed to retain the same order of the requests returned from the
       :meth:`~get_media_requests` method.
@@ -322,3 +319,5 @@ above::
             item['image_paths'] = image_paths
             return item
 
+.. _Twisted Failure: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.python.failure.Failure.html
+.. _MD5 hash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
diff --git a/docs/topics/request-response.rst b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
index 9dc54f07b..9399d1b92 100644
--- a/docs/topics/request-response.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
@@ -114,8 +114,6 @@ Request objects
        as first parameter.
     :type errback: callable
 
-    .. _Twisted Failure: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/8.2.0/api/twisted.python.failure.Failure.html
-
     .. attribute:: Request.url
 
         A string containing the URL of this request. Keep in mind that this
@@ -541,3 +539,5 @@ XmlResponse objects
     The :class:`XmlResponse` class is a subclass of :class:`TextResponse` which
     adds encoding auto-discovering support by looking into the XML declaration
     line.  See :attr:`TextResponse.encoding`.
+
+.. _Twisted Failure: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.python.failure.Failure.html
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3605e94a7..5a767c91b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Twisted>=8.0
+Twisted>=10.0.0
 w3lib>=1.2
 queuelib
 lxml
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7196b9528..1b67133c4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -122,6 +122,6 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     from distutils.core import setup
 else:
-    setup_args['install_requires'] = ['Twisted>=8.0', 'w3lib>=1.2', 'queuelib', 'lxml', 'pyOpenSSL']
+    setup_args['install_requires'] = ['Twisted>=10.0.0', 'w3lib>=1.2', 'queuelib', 'lxml', 'pyOpenSSL']
 
 setup(**setup_args)