Big Data Analytics Tools: Twitter API and Spark

Nowadays, Big Data is become more popular. With increasing the daily social media used, the increase of Data. Twitter is one of most popular social media for most users. However, Twitter provides an API framework that makes it easy for developers to access Twitter data. Using Spark, one can pick out a tweet that contains a specific keyword [1]. One can also do a text analysis about any subject of interest. In this article, Big Data analytics tools were explored, then Twitter data was collected and analyzed by Spark on EMR Amazon public cloud. This experiment can be applied for more complex applications to discover information from Data of interest.