Get Twitter information: A collaborative Android application for big data analysis

Data analysis is considered as a prevalent as well as critical business need due to the blowup of big data and advent of cloud computing platform. Mobile applications consume huge amount of data gathered from heterogeneous big data repositories and provide us with meaningful insights from it. These applications include business finance, investment and social networks etc. Social data analysis is one of the very important area where big data plays a crucial role. Therefore, we collaboratively analyzed the social data and used it to develop an android mobile application called Get Tweet Information (GTI) to extract tweets from the Twitter using Twitter API. This application initially asks the user for the search keyword and then it analyse the whole Twitter database to find all the tweets that contains input keyword. Along with the tweets, the user can also get additional information including the username of the person who posted the tweet, timestamp, count of retweets for a particular tweet, location, description and timeline of the user who posted the tweet.