def start_scheduler(db, tc):

    sched = AsyncIOScheduler()
    sched.daemonic = False
    sched.add_job(process_tweets, 'cron', second=0, args=[db, tc])
    sched.start()

    try:
        asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()
    except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
        db.conn.close()
        pass