I recently redesigned my wife’s blog, based off a new theme by my favorite WordPress template developers, WooThemes. The theme I selected has some nifty little java-script to display your latest Twitter update. Since Carrie isn’t a Twitter user, and likely isn’t going to become one anytime soon, I tried to find a way to replace this with her Facebook status updates.

This wasn’t easy, and maybe even isn’t the best way to go about this, I don’t know, but thought I’d share what I did for anyone else out there that may want to do the same thing. It’s easy to display your tweets in Facebook, but the reverse? Not so much. I don’t know why Facebook feels the need to prevent or hide this functionality. Anyways, here’s how I replaced the Twitter feed with Facebook’s status update, for anyone who may be interested.

Find the Facebook status feed – this is the difficult part since FB has since buried it with recent updates.

• Log on to Facebook and open the notifications window (bottom right)
• Click the ‘See All’ link
• Click the ‘Your Notifications’ RSS link (bottom right)
• You should be presented with your notifications RSS link

This will give you a feed link, but not the correct one, you’ll need hack it up quite a bit for it to work.

• Copy the link into a text editor and replace ‘notifications.php?id\’ with ‘status.php?id=’
• Replace all references to ‘\x3d” & “\x26’ in the link with a simple ‘=’ sign.
• This should give you a nice clean rss link to your Facebook status updates
• For example, this was my wife’s original and edited feed link.
• Original: http://www.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?id\x3d522510056\x26viewer\x3d522510056\x26key\x3d6a3c02d8a5\x26format\x3drss20
• Altered: http://www.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=516456579&viewer=516456579&key=eb395bd3ab&format=rss20

If you only need the Facebook status feed, you can stop there and simply add your feed to FeedBurner or one of many different services out there, or just use the WordPress plugin to import your feed to your blog. I had to get a little more creative though to import the Facebook status to Twitter, and then to the Twitter feature on the blog.

Sign up for an RSS2twitter account here: http://rss2twitter.com

• You’ll need to authorize RSS2twitter for Twitter use, but once that’s complete, simply copy your edited Facebook feed link as a new feed in RSS2twitter.
• Edit the feed to display just the description, otherwise you may get some replicated text. Choose your update time, etc and save the feed, making sure to select your Twitter from the account drop down list.
• Once complete, you should see your Facebook status automatically imported to Twitter on the update schedule you selected in the previous step.

This solved my issue, now my wife’s blog displays her Facebook status as a Twitter update. Like I said, maybe not the best solution, but it worked for me so thought I’d share it with you.

You can see the final product on my wife’s blog, mommyhoodadventures.com. If you have any questions, feel free to comment below.