twitter-scraper: JSONDecodeError + 400 error when using get_tweets()

Code used:

import twitter_scraper
for tweet in twitter_scraper.get_tweets('twitter', pages=1):
    print(tweet)

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/foobar/code/temp/twitter-scraper/twitter_scraper/modules/tweets.py", line 166, in get_tweets
    yield from gen_tweets(pages)
  File "/home/foobar/code/temp/twitter-scraper/twitter_scraper/modules/tweets.py", line 37, in gen_tweets
    html=r.json()["items_html"], url="bunk", default_encoding="utf-8"
  File "/home/foobar/code/temp/twitter-scraper/.venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 898, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 354, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

The response from Twitter:

url: https://twitter.com/i/profiles/show/twitter/timeline/tweets?include_available_features=1&include_entities=1&include_new_items_bar=true
status_code: 400
text: ''

Perhaps this is related to the redesign mentioned in https://github.com/bisguzar/twitter-scraper/issues/132?