Twitter streaming using Spark

I'm trying to stream twitter data using spark scala code.I'm able to fetch data and create a dataframe and view it.But when trying to extract status.getPlace.getCountry() I get a java.lang.NullPointerException.

Spark version: 2.0.0, Scala version: 2.11.8

Tried with if conditions,checking value etc,but in vain.

Code:

val spark = SparkSession.builder().appName("Twitter Spark Example").getOrCreate()
val ssc = new StreamingContext(spark.sparkContext,Seconds(5))

val filters:Seq[String] =  Seq("hadoop")
val cb = new ConfigurationBuilder()
      .setOAuthConsumerKey("******")
      .setOAuthConsumerSecret("******")
      .setOAuthAccessToken("********")
      .setOAuthAccessTokenSecret("******").build()

val twitter_auth = new TwitterFactory(cb)
val a = new OAuthAuthorization(cb)
val atwitter:Option[twitter4j.auth.Authorization] =  Some(twitter_auth.getInstance(a).getAuthorization())

val tweetsdstream = TwitterUtils.createStream(ssc, atwitter, filters, StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER_2)
val data = tweetsdstream.map {status => 
      val places = status.getPlace
      val id = status.getUser.getId
      val date = status.getUser.getCreatedAt.toString()
      val user = status.getUser.getName()
      val place = places.getCountry()

      (id,date,user,place)
      }
data.foreachRDD{rdd =>
      import spark.implicits._
      rdd.toDF("id","date","user","place").show()
    }

ssc.start()
ssc.awaitTermination()

Is there any restriction on accessing location information from twitter? Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks