How To: Update Twitter with Facebook Status

This will guide you through the process of having Facebook update Twitter with your FB status.

For the purpose of discussion we’ll refer to the account you actually use as “YourAccount”. A secondary account must be used which we’ll refer to as “SecondAccount”.

First, create a new FB profile – or – use a friend’s (This is SecondAccount)

Login to the SecondAccount and make sure you are friends with YourAccount.

Go to http://www.facebook.com/notes.php

This should bring up a page that shows notes from all of SecondAccount’s friends. Toward the bottom right you’ll see “Subscribe to these notes” and a link that says “My Friend’s Notes” – click that!

An RSS page comes up displaying all of the most recent notes from all of SecondAccount’s friends. The address link will look similar to this:

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_notes.php?id=111111111111&key=11111111&format=rss20

(The ID and KEY numbers have been replaced with 1’s for this example, you should leave numbers intact)

You will need to change part of this link – “friends_notes.php” to “friends_status.php”

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=111111111111&key=11111111&format=rss20

Now you will have the RSS feed for the most recent status updates from all of SecondAccount’s friends. Copy this link to a new window so you don’t lose it!

Next we need to filter this down to just the one friend (YourAccount) – this is especially needed if you’re using a friend’s account as “SecondAccount”. While still logged in as SecondAccount:

Go to: http://www.facebook.com/friends/

On the right hand side of the page, about half way down is a series of links. The first one listed should be “Friends” – click this to display a list of all SecondAccount’s friends.

Next, at the top of that list will be a link to “Create New List”. Create a new list – name it whatever you want (“YourName Status” works well)  and add only YourAccount to the list.

Once the list has been created, select the list name [YourName Status] back on the right hand side menu. (You might need to refresh the page)

You should see YourAccount’s name come up in the list to the right. (If it comes up but is blank, continue anyway, it seems to show it right away sometimes and other times it takes a bit)

What we’re looking for is the list’s ID number. You’ll find this listed at the end of the address bar. It should look something like this:

http://www.facebook.com/friends/?filter=flp_22222222222222

(Where 22222222 is a series of numbers that make up the List ID)

The long number at the end is what we’re after!

Now, remember that link we saved earlier?

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=11111111111&key=11111111111&format=rss20

At the end of this link add the following:

&flid=

Followed by the list’s ID number (2222222222222) so you end up with something like this:

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=111111111&key=111111111=rss20&flid=2222222222222

If you open this link you should now see an RSS feed with a single entry: the latest status entry from YourAccount.

Now you’ll need to get a TwitterFeed account. Follow the registration process and create a new feed. Name the feed whatever you like and enter your new RSS link. I change the Post Content options to “Description Only” and have it update every 30 minutes instead of the default hour.

Save – and wait 30 minutes! Best of luck!