diff --git a/R/auth.R b/R/auth.R
index f1d88830..c86727cc 100644
--- a/R/auth.R
+++ b/R/auth.R
@@ -472,7 +472,9 @@ auth_path <- function(...) {
 #' @export
 #' @rdname rtweet_user
 rtweet_oauth2 <- function(client = NULL, scopes = NULL) {
-  .Defunct(msg = "No longer needed, httr2 handles it automatically", package = "rtweet")
+  lifecycle::deprecate_stop("2.0.0", what = "rtweet_oatuh2()",
+                            details = c("No longer needed, httr2 handles it automatically",
+                                        i = "Register your client with `client_as('my_client')` and make your requests"))
   client <- client %||% client_get()
   if (!is_client(client)) {
     abort(c("Client not valid",
diff --git a/R/http.R b/R/http.R
index 6581c0b5..2e217030 100644
--- a/R/http.R
+++ b/R/http.R
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ TWIT_method <- function(method, token, api,
                             details = c("This function might work until your bot/app/user is blocked or fail randomly!",
                                         "!" = "The API has been deprecated and the new API v2.2 requires subscriptions for most endpoints.",
                                         i = "See updates of function and API: help('rtweet-deprecated', 'rtweet' )"
-                                        ))
+                                        ),
+                            always = TRUE)
   # need scipen to ensure large IDs are not displayed in scientific notation
   # need ut8-encoding for the comma separated IDs
   withr::local_options(scipen = 14, encoding = "UTF-8")
diff --git a/R/post-tweet.R b/R/post-tweet.R
index 17292ec9..243e0f0b 100644
--- a/R/post-tweet.R
+++ b/R/post-tweet.R
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ post_tweet <- function(status = "my first rtweet #rstats",
     lifecycle::deprecate_warn("1.0.0", "post_tweet(destroy_id)", "post_destroy()")
     return(post_destroy(destroy_id, token=token))
   }
-  .Defunct("tweet_post", "rtweet", "Due to API changes use tweet_post()")
 
   ## if retweet
   if (!is.null(retweet_id)) {