diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 2e783d0..876a3b4 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ scalaVersion := "2.10.4"
 libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
   "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % "1.2.0" withSources() withJavadoc(),
   "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql" % "1.2.0" withSources() withJavadoc(),
+  "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-streaming" % "1.2.0" withSources() withJavadoc(),
   "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-streaming-twitter" % "1.2.0" withSources() withJavadoc(),
   "com.datastax.spark" %% "spark-cassandra-connector" % "1.2.0-alpha1" withSources() withJavadoc(),
   "com.github.nscala-time" %% "nscala-time" % "1.6.0" withSources() withJavadoc()
diff --git a/src/main/resources/log4j.properties b/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
index d6e68d9..bf48a21 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n
 
 # Print only messages of level WARN or above in the package com.foo.
 log4j.logger.com.datastax.spark.connector.rdd.CassandraRDD=INFO
-log4j.logger.org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager=OFF
\ No newline at end of file
+log4j.logger.org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager=OFF
+log4j.logger.twitter4j.StatusStreamImpl=OFF
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/scala/twitter/stream/StreamingSchema.scala b/src/main/scala/twitter/stream/StreamingSchema.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9f79182
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/scala/twitter/stream/StreamingSchema.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package twitter.stream
+
+import com.datastax.spark.connector.cql.CassandraConnector
+import org.apache.spark.SparkConf
+
+object StreamingSchema {
+
+  val KEYSPACE = "spark_demo"
+  val TABLE = "twitter_stream"
+
+  def prepareSchemaAndCleanData(conf: SparkConf) {
+    CassandraConnector(conf).withSessionDo { session =>
+      session.execute(s"CREATE KEYSPACE IF NOT EXISTS $KEYSPACE WITH REPLICATION = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor': 1 }")
+      session.execute( s"""CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $KEYSPACE.$TABLE (
+                            topic text,
+                            interval text,
+                            mentions counter,
+                            PRIMARY KEY(topic, interval)
+                          ) WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (interval DESC)
+      """)
+      session.execute(s"TRUNCATE $KEYSPACE.$TABLE")
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/scala/twitter/stream/TwitterStreaming.scala b/src/main/scala/twitter/stream/TwitterStreaming.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba429c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/scala/twitter/stream/TwitterStreaming.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+package twitter.stream
+
+import com.datastax.spark.connector.streaming._
+import com.datastax.spark.connector.SomeColumns
+import org.apache.spark.streaming.dstream.{DStream, ReceiverInputDStream}
+import org.apache.spark.streaming.{Time, StreamingContext, Seconds}
+import org.apache.spark.{SparkContext, SparkConf}
+import org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel
+import org.apache.spark.streaming.twitter.TwitterUtils
+import org.joda.time.{DateTime, DateTimeZone}
+import twitter.stream.StreamingSchema.{KEYSPACE, TABLE}
+import twitter4j.Status
+import twitter4j.auth.OAuthAuthorization
+import twitter4j.conf.ConfigurationBuilder
+
+object TwitterStreaming {
+
+ /*
+  * Pass in Twitter properties as -D system properties:
+  * -Dtwitter4j.oauth.consumerKey="value"
+  * -Dtwitter4j.oauth.consumerSecret="value"
+  * -Dtwitter4j.oauth.accessToken="value"
+  * -Dtwitter4j.oauth.accessTokenSecret="value"
+  */
+
+  val StreamingBatchInterval = 5
+
+  val Keywords = Seq("love","you","hate","cat","lol")
+  
+  def main (args: Array[String]): Unit = {
+
+
+    val consumerKey: String = sys.env.getOrElse("TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY", sys.props("twitter4j.oauth.consumerKey"))
+    val consumerSecret: String = sys.env.getOrElse("TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET", sys.props("twitter4j.oauth.consumerSecret"))
+
+     val accessToken: String = sys.env.getOrElse("TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN", sys.props("twitter4j.oauth.accessToken"))
+
+     val accessTokenSecret: String = sys.env.getOrElse("TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET", sys.props("twitter4j.oauth.accessTokenSecret"))
+
+     val authorization: OAuthAuthorization = new OAuthAuthorization(new ConfigurationBuilder()
+       .setOAuthConsumerKey(consumerKey)
+       .setOAuthConsumerSecret(consumerSecret)
+       .setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken)
+       .setOAuthAccessTokenSecret(accessTokenSecret)
+       .build)
+
+     val conf = new SparkConf(true)
+       .setAppName("stream_to_cassandra")
+       .setMaster("local[4]")
+       .set("spark.cassandra.connection.host", "localhost")
+
+     StreamingSchema.prepareSchemaAndCleanData(conf)
+
+     val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
+     val ssc = new StreamingContext(sc, Seconds(StreamingBatchInterval))
+
+     val stream: ReceiverInputDStream[Status] = TwitterUtils.createStream(ssc, Some(authorization), Nil, StorageLevel.MEMORY_ONLY_SER_2)
+
+     stream.flatMap(_.getText.toLowerCase.split("""\s+"""))
+       .filter(Keywords.contains(_))
+       .countByValueAndWindow(Seconds(5), Seconds(5))
+       .transform((rdd, time) => rdd.map { case (term, count) => (term, count, now(time))})
+       .saveToCassandra(KEYSPACE, TABLE, SomeColumns("topic", "mentions", "interval"))
+
+     ssc.checkpoint("/tmp/checkpoint")
+     ssc.start()
+     ssc.awaitTermination()
+
+   }
+
+  private def now(time: Time): String =
+    new DateTime(time.milliseconds, DateTimeZone.UTC).toString("yyyyMMddHH:mm:ss.SSS")
+}