diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4c58c78..0e001b5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # stocksight Change Log
 
+## [0.1-b.6] = 2019-07-15
+### fixed
+- "TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, int found" traceback error when running with -f twitteruserids.txt
+
 ## [0.1-b.5] = 2019-01-11
 ### changed
 - set encoding to utf-8 and checked for bytes when writing to twitteruserids.txt
diff --git a/sentiment.py b/sentiment.py
index 9c679bb..b569a9c 100644
--- a/sentiment.py
+++ b/sentiment.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 from config import *
 
 
-STOCKSIGHT_VERSION = '0.1-b.5'
+STOCKSIGHT_VERSION = '0.1-b.6'
 __version__ = STOCKSIGHT_VERSION
 
 IS_PY3 = sys.version_info >= (3, 0)
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ def get_twitter_users_from_file(file):
     try:
         f = open(file, "rt", encoding='utf-8')
         for line in f.readlines():
-            u = int(line.strip())
+            u = line.strip()
             twitter_users.append(u)
         logger.debug(twitter_users)
         f.close()