Tweet Object

Tweet

{
    "created_at":"Thu Dec 25 22:12:02 +0000 2014",
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            {
                "text":"Messi",
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            }
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            }
        ],
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    },
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    "user":{
        "created_at":"Thu Jan 03 17:48:26 +0000 2013",
        "url":"http://t.co/uiDdMl6hAy",
        "description":"The official twitter account of Team Messi - a global fan movement founded by adidas to celebrate everything Messi.",
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            },
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        "lang":"en",
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    },
    "text":"#Messi: ¡Feliz Navidad para todos! :)\nhttps://t.co/UGd4QONIOI",
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}

What I usually do is to extract the information from JSON that I need to query on and then store the rest of the JSON as a string in the DB