MongoDB is the fastest growing NoSQL database. Apart from the advantages of NoSQL technology, it’s JSON querying style, easy installation makes it more preferable. In this article I’m going to show you how to save tweets into MongoDB using Java.

Twitter is the social network used very widely for promoting products, films, etc. It is loved by companies especially for marketing. Twitter API owes the biggest part in Twitter’s success. The API is providing you the ability to do every possible operation that you can do in the website through your programs. For example, you find twitter tweets in many other sites (even in this blog) and this is achieved using Twitter API. Using this API you can do a lot of innovative things similar to the viral marketing done by Warner Bros for The Dart Knight Rises.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Computer languages are not an exception to this rule. However, there are as many as 1600 different computer languages as they say. Did all these languages have necessities? Yes. But the importance of the necessities differ. At the least it had a necessity to satisfy its own designer. When a language satisfies a big need of numerous people, it remains, others wash away or limited to particular community. Java is one such language which was designed for something and outgrown into something invincible.

Twitter has been famous from two or three years ago. I had not had much idea about it till two weeks back. I really wanted to check what twitter offers and so joined twitter two weeks back. It is a nice experience exploring a new service. Whenever I do explore, I try to reverse engineer that too.