For social authentication using Twitter, add the following line to the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting in the settings.py file of your project:

'social_core.backends.twitter.TwitterOAuth',

You will need to create a new application in your Twitter account. Open https://apps.twitter.com/app/new in your browser. You will see the following form:

Enter the details of your application, including the following settings:

• Website: http://mysite.com:8000/
• Callback URL: http://mysite.com:8000/social-auth/complete/twitter/

Then, click on Create your Twitter application. You will see the application details. Click on Keys and Access Tokens. You should see the following information:

Copy the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret keys into the following settings in the settings.py file of your project:

SOCIAL_AUTH_TWITTER_KEY = 'XXX' # Twitter Consumer Key
SOCIAL_AUTH_TWITTER_SECRET = 'XXX' # Twitter Consumer Secret

Now, edit the registration/login.html template and add the following code to the <ul> element:

<li class="twitter"><a href="{% url "social:begin" "twitter" 
 %}">Login with Twitter</a></li>

Open http://mysite.com:8000/account/login/ in your browser and click on the Login with Twitter link. You will be redirected to Twitter, and it will ask you to authorize the application as follows:

Click on Authorize app. You will be logged in and redirected to the dashboard page of your site.