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Spring Social

Social networking is everywhere and most Internet users have one or more social networking accounts. People tweet to share what they are doing or how they feel about a subject; they share pictures on Facebook and Instagram, and write blogs using Tumblr. More and more social networks are appearing every day.

As the owner of a website it can be beneficial to add integration with those social networks, allowing users to easily post links or to filter and show how people think.

Spring Social tries to have a unified API to connect to those different networks and an extension model. Spring Social itself provides integration for ...

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