I spend a few hours trying to get Twitter integration to work with Spring Social using the XML configuration approach. All the examples I could find on the web (and on stackover
I have a working xml spring-mvc/spring-social configuration for tomcat7 in this question I posted.
This question was posted a long time ago but maybe the configuration in my post will save some people some time. It took me quite some time to set up with XML configuration and latest spring 4.2.4 MVC including spring-social(1.1.4) and spring-social-twitter(1.1.2) twitter connection. I write versions here, because there are quite a few things different between spring versions.