Facebook Pages now publishable outside the wall

by rob on August 21, 2009 · Comments

I’ve noted before that Facebook Pages (not personal profiles) have some growing up to do. One of the features I’ve been waiting for is to have Facebook Page updates published somewhere OUTSIDE Facebook. Pages are public and Google can find them, but there was no way to have updates on the Page republished or cross-posted somewhere else.

Until now. Facebook released a Twitter Exporter Tool that allows Page updates to go out to Twitter. Finally a step in the right (or outside the wall) direction!

It’s not the cleanest way to republish your Facebook Page content because most people will just add it to an existing Twitter account, but it works.

2009-08-21_113638

What I’ve done is added it to a Twitter account I’ve been sitting on: @orangejackllc for now to see how it works out. If you REALLY wanted to clean this up, create a new Twitter account just for your Facebook Page, then use that Twitter Account’s RSS feed and voila! You have a Facebook Page RSS feed held under 140 characters.

See? I told you it’s not the cleanest solution. That would be for Facebook to add RSS to the Pages, but this works.

Save, Share and Enjoy:
  • FriendFeed
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Sphinn
  • Posterous
  • PDF
  • email
  • Cody
    In the interim, I found a solution through Feed43. Credit goes to Cody Gibbs on Facebook (another Cody) and Igor Afanasyev at Feed43.

    Hopefully any readers will reward the effort by becoming a fan of Caucasus Hope on Facebook!

    Go to Feed43.com and paste in your wall URL as the source. Mine is:
    http://www.facebook.com/CaucasusHope#/CaucasusH...

    Use the following string as the item search pattern:

    {%}



    That's it, the result is an XML feed you can use as needed! If anyone knows how to improve on this, please post a comment in reply. Peace!
  • Cody
    What if we use our Twitter account differently? We're looking for a true Wall-to-RSS application. Know of anything since you posted this?
  • Cody, as far as I know there is no wall-to-rss application. I think that should be built into Pages since they are already public. Just have to wait as far as I know.
blog comments powered by Disqus

Previous post:

Next post: