The document discusses cloning Twitter using HBase. It describes some key features of Twitter like allowing users to post status updates, follow other users, mention users, and re-tweet posts. It then provides an overview of HBase including its features like consistency, automatic sharding and failover. It discusses how to install HBase in single node, pseudo-distributed and fully distributed modes using Docker. It also demonstrates some common HBase shell commands like creating and listing tables, putting and getting data. Finally, it discusses how to model the user, tweet, follower and following relationships in HBase.