title: JSON ValueError: Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 1)
body: <p>I am having trouble using json.loads to convert to a dict object and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.The exact error I get running this is </p>
  
  <pre><code>ValueError: Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 1)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from kafka.client import KafkaClient
  from kafka.consumer import SimpleConsumer
  from kafka.producer import SimpleProducer, KeyedProducer
  import pymongo
  from pymongo import MongoClient
  import json
  
  c = MongoClient("54.210.157.57")
  db = c.test_database3
  collection = db.tweet_col
  
  kafka = KafkaClient("54.210.157.57:9092")
  
  consumer = SimpleConsumer(kafka,"myconsumer","test")
  for tweet in consumer:
      print tweet.message.value
      jsonTweet=json.loads(({u'favorited': False, u'contributors': None})
      collection.insert(jsonTweet)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm pretty sure that the error is occuring at the 2nd to last line </p>
  
  <pre><code>jsonTweet=json.loads({u'favorited': False, u'contributors': None})
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I do not know what to do to fix it. Any advice would be appreciated.</p>