diff --git a/llama_index/readers/twitter.py b/llama_index/readers/twitter.py
index 898342b7c4677fb519fbe09427845d334a25a4e5..d0a47206c3ed12750dfa2f636c353a86b311faa8 100644
--- a/llama_index/readers/twitter.py
+++ b/llama_index/readers/twitter.py
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@ class TwitterTweetReader(BasePydanticReader):
         num_tweets: Optional[int] = 100,
     ) -> None:
         """Initialize with parameters."""
-        self.bearer_token = bearer_token
-        self.num_tweets = num_tweets
         super().__init__(
             num_tweets=num_tweets,
             bearer_token=bearer_token,