This is an easy tutorial of using Apache Spark Streaming with Scala language using the official  TwitterPopularTags.scala example and putting it in a standalone sbt project.   In few minutes you will be able to receive streams of tweets and manipulating then in realtime with  Apache Spark Streaming

• Install Apache Spark (I used 1.5.1)
• Install sbt
• git clone https://github.com/matteoredaelli/TwitterPopularTags
• cd TwitterPopularTags
• cp twitter4j.properties.sample twitter4j.properties
• edit twitter4j.properties
• sbt package
• spark-submit –master local –packages “org.apache.spark:spark-streaming-twitter_2.10:1.5.1” ./target/scala-2.10/twitterpopulartags_2.10-1.0.jar italy