basic implementation (untested)
diff --git a/local/pom.xml b/local/pom.xml
index 184d463..3b277d3 100644
--- a/local/pom.xml
+++ b/local/pom.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@
     </properties>
 
     <modules>
-	<module>elasticsearch-reindex</module>
+
+        <module>twitter-history-elasticsearch</module>
+
     </modules>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/README.md b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..649953b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+Apache Streams (incubating)
+Licensed under Apache License 2.0 - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+twitter-history-elasticsearch
+==============================
+
+Requirements:
+-------------
+ - Authorized Twitter API credentials
+ - A running ElasticSearch 1.0.0+ instance
+
+Description:
+------------
+Retrieves as many posts from a known list of users as twitter API allows.
+
+Converts them to activities, and writes them in activity format to Elasticsearch.
+
+Specification:
+-----------------
+
+[TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.dot](src/main/resources/TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.dot "TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.dot" )
+
+Diagram:
+-----------------
+
+![TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.png](./TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.png?raw=true)
+
+Example Configuration:
+----------------------
+
+    twitter {
+        host = "api.twitter.com"
+        endpoint = "statuses/user_timeline"
+        oauth {
+            consumerKey = ""
+            consumerSecret = ""
+            accessToken = ""
+            accessTokenSecret = ""
+        }
+        info = [
+            "42232950"
+            "211620426"
+        ]
+    }
+    elasticsearch {
+        hosts = [
+            localhost
+        ]
+        port = 9300
+        clusterName = elasticsearch
+        index = userhistory_activity
+        type = activity
+    }
+
+In the Twitter section you should place all of your relevant authentication keys and whichever Twitter IDs you're looking to follow
+Twitter IDs can be converted from screennames at http://www.gettwitterid.com
+
+Running:
+--------
+
+You will need to run `./install_templates.sh` in the resources folder in order to apply the templates to your ES cluster
+
+    java -cp target/twitter-history-elasticsearch-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar -Dconfig.file=application.conf org.apache.streams.twitter.example.TwitterHistoryElasticsearchActivity
+
+Note that you must modify src/main/resources/application.conf, and supply an absolute path to config.file
+
+Verification:
+-------------
+Open up http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/ and confirm that the index you specified now contains has data
+
+Download https://github.com/w2ogroup/streams-examples/blob/master/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/resources/reports/ActivityReport.json
+
+Open up http://localhost:9200/_plugin/marvel and from the folder icon in the top right hand corner click
+    Load -> Advanced -> Choose File and select the report you downloaded
+
+The gear on the top-right allows you to change the report index
+
+You should now see dashboards displaying metrics about your twitter activity
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diff --git a/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.png b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.png
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diff --git a/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/pom.xml b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..06855c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,296 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.apache.streams</groupId>
+        <artifactId>streams-examples-local</artifactId>
+        <version>0.2-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <artifactId>twitter-history-elasticsearch</artifactId>
+
+    <properties>
+        <elasticsearch.version>1.1.0</elasticsearch.version>
+        <lucene.version>4.7.2</lucene.version>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <!-- Test includes -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
+            <artifactId>lucene-test-framework</artifactId>
+            <version>${lucene.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.lucene</groupId>
+            <artifactId>lucene-codecs</artifactId>
+            <version>${lucene.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
+            <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
+            <version>${elasticsearch.version}</version>
+            <type>test-jar</type>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hamcrest-all</artifactId>
+            <version>1.3</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.streams</groupId>
+            <artifactId>streams-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.typesafe</groupId>
+            <artifactId>config</artifactId>
+            <version>1.2.0</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.streams</groupId>
+            <artifactId>streams-config</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.streams</groupId>
+            <artifactId>streams-util</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+            <type>test-jar</type>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.streams</groupId>
+            <artifactId>streams-pojo</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+            <type>test-jar</type>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.streams</groupId>
+            <artifactId>streams-runtime-local</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.streams</groupId>
+            <artifactId>streams-provider-twitter</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.streams</groupId>
+            <artifactId>streams-persist-elasticsearch</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId>
+            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <sourceDirectory>src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
+        <testSourceDirectory>src/test/java</testSourceDirectory>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+        <testResources>
+            <testResource>
+                <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
+            </testResource>
+        </testResources>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <filesets>
+                        <fileset>
+                            <directory>data</directory>
+                            <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
+                        </fileset>
+                    </filesets>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <!-- This binary runs with logback -->
+            <!-- Keep log4j out -->
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.3.1</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>enforce-banned-dependencies</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>enforce</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <rules>
+                                <bannedDependencies>
+                                    <excludes>
+                                        <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-jcl</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-jdk14</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>org.log4j:log4j</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>commons-logging:commons-logging</exclude>
+                                    </excludes>
+                                </bannedDependencies>
+                            </rules>
+                            <fail>true</fail>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>shade</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <finalName>${project.build.finalName}</finalName>
+                            <filters>
+                                <filter>
+                                    <artifact>*:*</artifact>
+                                    <excludes>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>**/logback.xml</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>**/log4j.properties</exclude>
+                                    </excludes>
+                                </filter>
+                            </filters>
+                            <transformers>
+                                <transformer
+                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer" />
+                                <transformer
+                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
+                                    <mainClass>org.apache.streams.example.twitter.TwitterHistoryElasticsearch</mainClass>
+                                </transformer>
+                            </transformers>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.jsonschema2pojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jsonschema2pojo-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>0.4.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <addCompileSourceRoot>true</addCompileSourceRoot>
+                    <generateBuilders>true</generateBuilders>
+                    <sourcePaths>
+                        <sourcePath>src/main/jsonschema</sourcePath>
+                    </sourcePaths>
+                    <outputDirectory>target/generated-sources/jsonschema2pojo</outputDirectory>
+                    <targetPackage>org.apache.streams.example.twitter</targetPackage>
+                    <useJodaDates>false</useJodaDates>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>generate</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>add-source</id>
+                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>add-source</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <sources>
+                                <source>target/generated-sources/jsonschema2pojo</source>
+                            </sources>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.4</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>resource-dependencies</id>
+                        <phase>process-test-resources</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <includeArtifactIds>streams-pojo</includeArtifactIds>
+                            <includes>**/*.json</includes>
+                            <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/test-classes</outputDirectory>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.12.4</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>integration-tests</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>integration-test</goal>
+                            <goal>verify</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/streams/example/twitter/TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.java b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/streams/example/twitter/TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e1c886
--- /dev/null
+++ b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/streams/example/twitter/TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.java
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.streams.example.twitter;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+import com.typesafe.config.Config;
+import org.apache.streams.config.ComponentConfigurator;
+import org.apache.streams.config.StreamsConfigurator;
+import org.apache.streams.core.StreamBuilder;
+import org.apache.streams.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchConfigurator;
+import org.apache.streams.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchPersistWriter;
+import org.apache.streams.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchWriterConfiguration;
+import org.apache.streams.local.builders.LocalStreamBuilder;
+import org.apache.streams.pojo.json.Activity;
+import org.apache.streams.twitter.TwitterStreamConfiguration;
+import org.apache.streams.twitter.TwitterUserInformationConfiguration;
+import org.apache.streams.twitter.processor.TwitterTypeConverter;
+import org.apache.streams.twitter.provider.TwitterConfigurator;
+import org.apache.streams.twitter.provider.TwitterTimelineProvider;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * Retrieves as many posts from a known list of users as twitter API allows.
+ *
+ * Converts them to activities, and writes them in activity format to Elasticsearch.
+ */
+
+public class TwitterHistoryElasticsearch implements Runnable {
+
+    public final static String STREAMS_ID = "TwitterHistoryElasticsearch";
+
+    private final static Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.class);
+
+    private static final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+
+    TwitterHistoryElasticsearchConfiguration config;
+
+    public TwitterHistoryElasticsearch() {
+        this(new ComponentConfigurator<>(TwitterHistoryElasticsearchConfiguration.class).detectConfiguration(StreamsConfigurator.getConfig()));
+
+    }
+
+    public TwitterHistoryElasticsearch(TwitterHistoryElasticsearchConfiguration config) {
+        this.config = config;
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args)
+    {
+        LOGGER.info(StreamsConfigurator.config.toString());
+
+        TwitterHistoryElasticsearch history = new TwitterHistoryElasticsearch();
+
+        new Thread(history).start();
+
+    }
+
+
+    public void run() {
+
+        TwitterTimelineProvider provider = new TwitterTimelineProvider(config.getTwitter(), ObjectNode.class);
+        TwitterTypeConverter converter = new TwitterTypeConverter(ObjectNode.class, Activity.class);
+        ElasticsearchPersistWriter writer = new ElasticsearchPersistWriter(config.getElasticsearch());
+
+        StreamBuilder builder = new LocalStreamBuilder(500);
+
+        builder.newPerpetualStream("provider", provider);
+        builder.addStreamsProcessor("converter", converter, 2, "provider");
+        builder.addStreamsPersistWriter("writer", writer, 1, "converter");
+        builder.start();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/jsonschema/org/apache/streams/example/twitter/TwitterHistoryElasticsearchConfiguration.json b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/jsonschema/org/apache/streams/example/twitter/TwitterHistoryElasticsearchConfiguration.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea9b165
--- /dev/null
+++ b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/jsonschema/org/apache/streams/example/twitter/TwitterHistoryElasticsearchConfiguration.json
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+{
+    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-03/schema",
+    "$license": [
+        "http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0"
+    ],
+    "type": "object",
+    "javaType" : "org.apache.streams.example.twitter.TwitterHistoryElasticsearchConfiguration",
+    "javaInterfaces": ["java.io.Serializable"],
+    "properties": {
+        "twitter": { "javaType": "org.apache.streams.twitter.TwitterUserInformationConfiguration", "type": "object", "required": true },
+        "elasticsearch": { "javaType": "org.apache.streams.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchWriterConfiguration", "type": "object", "required": true }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/resources/TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.dot b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/resources/TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.dot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e13af61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/resources/TwitterHistoryElasticsearch.dot
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+digraph g {
+
+  //providers
+  TwitterTimelineProvider [label="TwitterTimelineProvider",shape=ellipse,URL="https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams/blob/master/streams-contrib/streams-provider-twitter/src/main/java/org/apache/streams/twitter/provider/TwitterTimelineProvider.java"];
+
+  //processors
+  TwitterTypeConverter [label="TwitterTypeConverter",shape=box,URL="https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams/blob/master/streams-contrib/streams-provider-twitter/src/main/java/org/apache/streams/twitter/processor/TwitterTypeConverter.java"];
+  
+  //persisters
+  ElasticsearchPersistWriter [label="ElasticsearchPersistWriter",shape=ellipse,URL="https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams/blob/master/streams-contrib/streams-persist-elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/streams/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchPersistWriter.java"];
+  
+  //data
+  es [label="es://{index}/{type}",shape=box];
+  
+  //stream
+  TwitterTimelineProvider -> TwitterTypeConverter [label="ObjectNode"];
+  TwitterTypeConverter -> ElasticsearchPersistWriter [label="Activity",URL="https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams/blob/master/streams-pojo/src/main/jsonschema/org/apache/streams/pojo/json/activity.json"];
+  
+  ElasticsearchPersistWriter -> es [label="Activity",URL="https://github.com/apache/incubator-streams/blob/master/streams-pojo/src/main/jsonschema/org/apache/streams/pojo/json/activity.json"];
+  
+}
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diff --git a/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/resources/application.conf b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/resources/application.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c74b54b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/src/main/resources/application.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+twitter {
+  host = "api.twitter.com"
+  endpoint = "statuses/user_timeline"
+  oauth {
+    consumerKey = ""
+    consumerSecret = ""
+    accessToken = ""
+    accessTokenSecret = ""
+  }
+  info = [
+    "42232950"
+    "211620426"
+  ]
+}
+elasticsearch {
+  hosts = [
+    localhost
+  ]
+  port = 9300
+  clusterName = elasticsearch
+  index = twitterhistory_activity
+  type = activity
+}
diff --git a/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/twitter-history-elasticsearch.png b/local/twitter-history-elasticsearch/twitter-history-elasticsearch.png
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