My Status: Now Clear Your Status, Layout Enhancements, & More

Just in time for Thanksgiving, we have rolled out several enhancements to My Status.

1. Clear Your Status — You can now clear your Facebook status right from the main My Status page.

2. Better Layout

• Blank status updates or status updates that just say “is” (throwback to when that defaulted into the status update field) are now excluded from the history
• Increased font size for the status message and changed the date/time to a small gray font. This provides a cleaner layout for the status history.
• Changed action message to “What’s on your mind?” to match the question that Facebook now asks.
• Removed the default “is” in the status message since Facebook has changed how they display status updates.
• Changed the “status updated” messages to display in a gray box to visually offset them from the yellow current status boxes.

3. Optionally Update only Twitter Status — Now you can uncheck a box to exclude updating your Facebook update. This was done to allow you to update only your Twitter status if you so desire.

4. Experimental Functions for Power Users

• You can now manually specify ?count=number, to display more or less status history updates per page. eg: http://apps.facebook.com/my-status/?count=40 to display 40 li8nes per page rather than the default 20 lines.
• You can now manually specify a search keyword to search your status history. Eg. http://apps.facebook.com/my-status/?search=football. To specify more than one keyword, separate them with %20, which represents a space. Eg. http://apps.facebook.com/my-status/?search=football%20game

Thanks to Rachele K for providing some of these suggested updates!