diff --git a/src/sessions/twitter/compose.py b/src/sessions/twitter/compose.py
index 98370391..89dc6f16 100644
--- a/src/sessions/twitter/compose.py
+++ b/src/sessions/twitter/compose.py
@@ -77,8 +77,6 @@ def compose_tweet(tweet, db, relative_times, show_screen_names=False, session=No
  return [user+", ", text, ts+", ", source]
 
 def compose_direct_message(item, db, relative_times, show_screen_names=False, session=None):
- # for a while this function will be together with compose_dm.
- # this one composes direct messages based on events (new API Endpoints).
  if system == "Windows":
    # Let's remove the last 3 digits in the timestamp string.
    # Twitter sends their "epoch" timestamp with 3 digits for milliseconds and arrow doesn't like it.
diff --git a/src/sessions/twitter/session.py b/src/sessions/twitter/session.py
index ff2badbf..7dd1fb79 100644
--- a/src/sessions/twitter/session.py
+++ b/src/sessions/twitter/session.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import application
 from pubsub import pub
 import tweepy
 from tweepy.error import TweepError
+from tweepy.models import User as UserModel
 from mysc.thread_utils import call_threaded
 from keys import keyring
 from sessions import base
@@ -404,13 +405,16 @@ class Session(base.baseSession):
  def get_user(self, id):
   """ Returns an user object associated with an ID.
   id str: User identifier, provided by Twitter.
-  returns an user dict."""
+  returns a tweepy user object."""
   if ("users" in self.db) == False or (id in self.db["users"]) == False:
    try:
     user = self.twitter.get_user(id=id)
    except TweepError as err:
-    user = dict(screen_name="deleted_account", name="Deleted account")
-    return user
+    user = UserModel(None)
+    user.screen_name = "deleted_user"
+    user.id = id
+    user.name = _("Deleted account")
+    user.id_str = id
    self.db["users"][user.id_str] = user
    return user
   else: