diff --git a/config/essetup.py b/config/essetup.py
index e1a2069..f6acfc2 100644
--- a/config/essetup.py
+++ b/config/essetup.py
@@ -35,6 +35,20 @@
                 'original_id': {'type': 'string'},
                 'original_name': {'type': 'string'}
             }
+        },
+        'users': {
+            'id': {'type': 'long'},
+            'name': {'type': 'string'},
+            'screen_name': {'type': 'string'},
+            'followers_count': {'type': 'long'},
+            'friends_count': {'type': 'long'},
+            'location': {'type': 'string'},
+            'description': {'type': 'string'},
+            'favourites_count': {'type': 'long'},
+            'statuses_count': {'type': 'long'},
+            'listed_count': {'type': 'long'},
+            'profile_background_image_url': {'type': 'string'},
+            'profile_image_url': {'type': 'string'}
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/crontab b/crontab
index 6db029b..4dcdf13 100644
--- a/crontab
+++ b/crontab
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 0,15,30,45 * * * * python /discursive/index_twitter_stream.py /discursive/topics.txt
+0 0 * * * python /discursive/index_user_profiles.py /discursive/users.txt
diff --git a/index_user_profiles.py b/index_user_profiles.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48df0f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/index_user_profiles.py
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+import json
+import tweepy
+from config import esconn, aws_config, twitter_config
+import os
+from datetime import datetime as dt
+from config import s3conn
+
+# unicode mgmt
+import sys
+reload(sys)
+sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
+
+# Twitter auth and api call setup
+auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(twitter_config.CONSUMER_KEY, twitter_config.CONSUMER_SECRET)
+auth.set_access_token(twitter_config.ACCESS_TOKEN, twitter_config.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
+api = tweepy.API(auth)
+
+# Get elasticsearch connection
+es = esconn.esconn()
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 2:
+    sys.exit('ERROR: Received 2 or more arguments: {} {} {} Expected 1: User file name'.format(sys.argv[0], sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]))
+
+elif len(sys.argv) == 2:
+    try:
+        with open(sys.argv[1]) as f:
+            users = f.readlines()
+    except Exception:
+        sys.exit('ERROR: Expected user file %s not found' % sys.argv[1])
+else:
+    try:
+        with open('users.txt') as f:
+            users = f.readlines()
+    except:
+        sys.exit('ERROR: Default users.txt not found. No alternate topic file  was provided')
+
+
+USERS = [user.replace('\n', '').strip() for user in users]
+
+def retrieve_user_data():
+    try:
+        return api.lookup_users(user_ids=USERS)
+    except tweepy.TweepError as e:
+        sys.exit("An error occured looking up the user_ids. Verify the correctness and existance of the given screen names, handles or ids.")
+
+def map_user_for_es(user, time_stamp):
+    return {
+        'timestamp': time_stamp,
+        'id': user.id,
+        'name': user.screen_name,
+        'screen_name': user.screen_name,
+        'followers_count': user.followers_count,
+        'friends_count': user.friends_count,
+        'location': user.location,
+        'description': user.description,
+        'favourites_count': user.favourites_count,
+        'statuses_count': user.statuses_count,
+        'listed_count': user.listed_count,
+        'profile_background_image_url': user.profile_background_image_url,
+        'profile_image_url': user.profile_image_url
+    }  
+
+def dump_to_elastic(bodydata):
+    es.index(index='twitter', doc_type="users", body=bodydata)
+
+def get_time_stamp():
+    return dt.now()
+
+def get_twitter_users_pipeline():
+    time_stamp = get_time_stamp()
+    user_data = retrieve_user_data()
+    for user in user_data:
+        mapped_user_data = map_user_for_es(user, time_stamp)
+        dump_to_elastic(mapped_user_data)
+
+get_twitter_users_pipeline()
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diff --git a/users.txt b/users.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87dedbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+25073877
+20536157
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