Change an abandoned package with Composer

I recently ran into this issue with my Drupal 11 CMS with a module called 'media_entity_twitter'. ( See 'external links' below ). When I updated my CMS via composer, I got the following error :

j7mbo/twitter-api-php has been marked as abandoned, no longer maintained.

To work around this issue, I made the following change to the root Composer.json file :

   "require": {
   		.
   		.
        "tzlion/deadend-api-php": "^0.2.0"  // The replacement/forked package
    },
    "replace": {
        "j7mbo/twitter-api-php": "*"  // The abandoned package to be replaced
    },

Update your CMS again using 'composer update'. Make sure that the replacement/forked package is functionally similar to the abandoned package. Otherwise you may get erroneous errors happen in your CMS.