HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
        HttpProtocolParams.setVersion(params, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
        HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(params, "utf-8");

         SchemeRegistry registry = new SchemeRegistry();
        registry.register(new Scheme("http", PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory(), 80));

         ThreadSafeClientConnManager manager = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(params,
                registry);
        DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(manager, params);

        client.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(new AuthScope("stream.twitter.com", 80),
                new UsernamePasswordCredentials("username", "password"));
        HttpGet get = new HttpGet("http://stream.twitter.com/spritzer.xml");

        try {
            HttpResponse resp = client.execute(get);
            int statusCode = resp.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
            if (statusCode == 200) {
                InputStream stream = resp.getEntity().getContent();
                XmlPullParserFactory factory;
                factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();

                XmlPullParser parser = factory.newPullParser();

                parser.setInput(stream, "utf-8");
                while (true) {
                    int event = parser.next();
                    if (event == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
                        String name = parser.getName();
                        if (name.equals("status")) {
                            String text = null;
                            String screenName = null;
                            while (true) {
                                event = parser.next();
                                if (event == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
                                    name = parser.getName();
                                    if (name.equals("text")) {
                                        text = parser.nextText();
                                    } else if (name.equals("user")) {
                                        String userName;
                                        while (true) {
                                            int eventUser;
                                            eventUser = parser.next();
                                            userName = parser.getName();
                                            if (eventUser == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
                                                if (userName.equals("screen_name")) {
                                                    screenName = parser.nextText();
                                                }
                                            } else if (eventUser == XmlPullParser.END_TAG
                                                    && userName.equals(("user"))) {             
                                                break;
                                            }
                                        }
                                    }
                                } else if (event == XmlPullParser.END_TAG
                                        && parser.getName().equals("status")){
                                    break;
                                }

                            }

                            System.out.println(screenName + ": " + text);
                            
                            //have to reset the parser input after every status parse
                            parser.setInput(stream, "utf-8");
                        }
                    } else if (event == XmlPullParser.END_TAG
                            && parser.getName().equals("statuses"))
                        break;

                }

            }

        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }