diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/twitter-common-collections/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/twitter-common-collections/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 89137a326391..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/twitter-common-collections/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchPypi,
-  twitter-common-lang,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "twitter.common.collections";
-  version = "0.3.11";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "ede4caff74928156f7ff38dac9b0811893de41966c39cd5b2fdea53418349ca8";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ twitter-common-lang ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Twitter's common collections";
-    homepage = "https://twitter.github.io/commons/";
-    license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ copumpkin ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 4b887b0e4249..185110624bdd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   tumpa = throw "tumpa was promoted to a top-level attribute"; # added 2022-11-19
   tvdb_api = tvdb-api; # added 2023-10-20
   tvnamer = throw "tvnamer was moved to pkgs.tvnamer"; # added 2021-07-05
+  twitter-common-collections = throw "twitter-common-collections has been removed because it is abandoned and unmaintained"; # added 2024-07-14
   types-cryptography = throw "types-cryptography has been removed because it is obsolete since cryptography version 3.4.4."; # added 2022-05-30
   types-paramiko = throw "types-paramiko has been removed because it was unused."; # added 2022-05-30
   ufoLib2 = ufolib2; # added 2024-01-07
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 960a53e4f1e0..694e1a528246 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -15740,8 +15740,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   twitter = callPackage ../development/python-modules/twitter { };
 
-  twitter-common-collections = callPackage ../development/python-modules/twitter-common-collections { };
-
   twitter-common-confluence = callPackage ../development/python-modules/twitter-common-confluence { };
 
   twitter-common-dirutil = callPackage ../development/python-modules/twitter-common-dirutil { };