Just pull in the trending stream from twitter and pass it through Hadoop Streaming (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/streaming.html http://hadoop.ap

Just pull in the trending stream from twitter and pass it through Hadoop Streaming (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/streaming.html http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/streaming.html). This is the kind of work that MapReduce is made for.