[FLUME-2190] add a source capable of feeding off of the Twitter Streaming API

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.1
• Component/s: Sinks+Sources
• Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 12/Sep/13 21:04
• Updated: 14/Mar/14 16:04
• Resolved: 27/Sep/13 20:25

Description

I would like to propose adding a source capable of connecting via Streaming API to the 1% sample twitter firehose, continously downloading tweets, converting them to Avro format and sending Avro events to a downstream Flume sink.

Issue Links

• is related to: FLUME-2070 Add a Flume Morphline Solr Sink