[FLUME-2326] CLONE - add a source capable of feeding off of the Twitter Streaming API

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.1
• Component/s: Sinks+Sources
• Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
• Reporter: Amr Noureldin
• Created: 19/Feb/14 11:51
• Updated: 19/Feb/14 11:55
• Resolved: 19/Feb/14 11:53

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.