Update(07.04.09):WordPress now has a Twitter widget.
Updated this post with new images & steps [17 Dec 2008].
We do love WordPress(WP) so much even though we lack Javascript support. If you ever wanted to add your Twitter updates on your wordpress.com blog, here’s a simple way to just get the thing done.
First, Go to your Twitter page & retrieve your Twitter RSS address & copy-paste it on …err..a text file 
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In Your Twitter Home page at the bottom left corner there’s a button named RSS. 
[If You use Firefox just right click on the RSS button & choose 'copy Link location'.]
I normally Burn my feeds with feedburner. But I had problems burning Twitter feed. There is a validation problem in Twitter RSS. In this case you can use plain Twitter RSS address.
You can have a wide variety of feeds with Friendfeed.com. You can get twitter feed through friendfeed. And also mixup other social networks into one feed easily with Friendfeed. To get a Twitter feed through Friendfeed just replace ‘chanux‘ with your Friendfeed name in following URL. Make sure you’ve added Twitter on friendfeed.
http://friendfeed.com/chanux?service=twitter&format=atom [you can burn this feed]
Then find your Facebook ‘My Status’ RSS feed & copy it down too.
- Make sure you are logged in to Facebook & follow this link to your Facebook Minifeed page.
- And look for following feed link on minifeed page & save the link address.
You can get your Facebook Status FEED address there. Your Feed address would look similar to this. http://www.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=#########& viewer=#########&key=##########&format=rss20
Now the WordPress stuff.
- Now go to widgets page in your wordpress admin pages.
- Add an RSS widget.
- Choose to edit the widget.
- Paste the RSS address & choose a title for the widget. Select number of items to display from drop down box (5 is decent). click done.
- Do not forget to Save changes
You can add Twitter and/or Facebook feed address in your sidebar like this.
Hope This tutorial is helpful. If you like, consider following me on Twitter . All Images are uploaded on PhotBucket
November 30, 2007 at 7:38 am
Nice post, I did it and worked fine.
Cheers
December 2, 2007 at 5:44 am
happy to hear that you find it helpful.
December 6, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Thanks man..that was really useful
December 13, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Thank you for this tutorial. It worked for me!
January 7, 2008 at 5:10 am
Thank you for this very simple tutorial!
January 9, 2008 at 2:53 pm
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January 22, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Of course you could use TwitterSync FB app and only use one or the other…
March 18, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Hello!
I think this try.
April 17, 2008 at 10:47 am
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April 20, 2008 at 3:01 pm
very nice but not very usefull for our blog. We’re actually seeking a plugin were users (we’ve a couple of 100) can add rtheir twitter / facebook url and their feeds get’s displayed on author.php
August 5, 2008 at 2:42 am
Thanks for the post. Very useful.
August 23, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Thanks for the tutorial. It worked.
November 8, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Um… The new facebook doesn’t have the minifeed anymore so it seems that this is no longer possible?
November 15, 2008 at 10:45 pm
@jay
No idea dude. Was / is too lazy to check on that. For me twitter RSS is down too
PS: Minifeed is there. Login to facebook & check here.
December 17, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Just Updated this post with new Images & guidelines.
December 18, 2008 at 10:03 am
Hey thanx chanux this is awesome. i was looking for somthing like this. Im going to try this out..
December 22, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Very nice. Thanks!
January 3, 2009 at 9:31 pm
thanx very much..
January 27, 2009 at 12:30 am
How easy was that. Thanks
January 28, 2009 at 3:09 am
great tip! never thought of it
February 21, 2009 at 8:08 am
Thank you !!!