Jeff Sandquist - Microsoft Evangelist

How to publish your Facebook status to Twitter

Wednesday, August 15 2007 - Uncategorized

reese With the addition of public facing feeds to Facebook I am now able to publish my status on Facebook to Twitter.    Here's how you can do it also.

First, find your status RSS feed on Facebook.   It is buried.  (Thanks Bizzle! for helping me find mine.)  To find it, you need to visit your profile on Facebook and on your mini-feed select "See All".   On the right you will see a list of items, select “status stories” and finally below this a feed link can be found.

Don't see a mini-feed on your profile page? 

You've most likely been changed your feed settings.  Resetting them to their default values from the feed preference page will bring back the mini-feed.

Finally add your newly found status RSS feed to the TwitterFeed service.  I set mine to update every thirty minutes, prefixed it with "From Facebook..." and am publishing just the title from the status feed.

Requests?   I have two, one for Twitter and another for Facebook.  :-)

1.  For Facebook - Feeds are cool, but only a start.  A real breakthrough would be an API that allows me to update Facebook via Twitter.   Fred Wilson agrees.

2. For Twitter - Please give us an application authentication like Flickr's.  Right now requiring each application to track a user's login/password is a very bad idea.

Using Twitter or Facebook?   Follow me on Twitter or add me as a friend on Facebook.

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How to publish your Facebook status to Twitter



#5 Benjamin "balupton" Lupton // Wednesday, April 23 2008 at 10:28 AM

Fantastic, just what I wanted. Thankyou.



#6 Manny Hernandez // Thursday, April 24 2008 at 10:09 AM

Thanks so much for sharing this! I posted on <a href="http://manuelhp42.blogspot.com/2008/04/post-your-facebook-status-to-twitter.html">my blog</a> about this, giving you credit.



#7 Duncan McAlynn // Wednesday, March 18 2009 at 3:12 PM

This doesn't appear to work with the new Facebook design. Sadly.



#8 Ramon // Sunday, March 22 2009 at 8:47 AM

It's on this page: www.new.facebook.com/.../minifeed.php

It's on the right under "Subscribe to these stories"...

Just tried it. (March 22, '09)



#9 YS // Thursday, March 26 2009 at 10:06 AM

Thanks Ramon for that.

but I hate Facebook for generating each Status Updates as a LINK.



#10 Dav // Thursday, May 14 2009 at 12:05 PM

You can already update your facebook status via twitter - just add the twitter application on facebook and allow it to update your status



#11 ABB // Saturday, June 06 2009 at 11:51 AM

Does this still work today? June 09. With the new FB layout, I can't find the steps to follow at all - apols. if user error:

"...status RSS feed on Facebook. It is buried... To find it, you need to visit your profile on Facebook and on your mini-feed select "See All". On the right you will see a list of items, select “status stories” and finally below this a feed link can be found."



#12 Offtherails // Tuesday, June 09 2009 at 6:36 AM

Same problem here - they appear to have hidden the RSS link.



#13 David Sutherland // Monday, June 15 2009 at 2:13 AM

Techweblife ran this article on finding your RSS feed: www.techlifeweb.com/.../how-to-find-you

The trick?

1) Go here: www.facebook.com/.../notifications.p 2) click "Your Notifications"

3) on the URL that opens replace the word notifications.php with status.php and copy that URL

there's the URL to get the RSS feed of your status -- weird but thanks go to techweblife.com



#14 Aaron // Friday, July 03 2009 at 3:48 PM

Thanks for the tip! My only problem is that every thirty minutes it re-tweets the same FB status, except adding my name again. For example it starts with "Aaron is bored" then if I don't change my FB status, it tweets "Aaron Aaron is bored" and so on. Any way to make TwitterFeed recognize that there is no new status?



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