title: Dumping Twitter Streaming API tweets as-is to Apache Cassandra for post-processing
body: <p>I am using the Twitter Streaming API to monitor several keywords/users. I am planning to dump the tweets json strings I get from twitter directly as-is to cassandra database and do post processing on them later.</p>
  
  <p>Is such a design practical? Will it scale up when I have millions of tweets?</p>
  
  <p>Things I will do later include getting top followed users, top hashtags etc. I would like to save the stream as is for mining them later for any new information that I may not know of now.</p>