# How To Get Facebooks Timeline Without The Wait - Host: [allfacebook.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/allfacebook.com/) - Saved: September 23, 2011 (2011-09-24T00:12:29Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6965b8c1b39e/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6965b8c1b39e.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Yesterday Facebook announced the new profile, timeline, but the beta version doesnt wont come out until at least the end of this month, if not later, and you have to sign up for it in advance but, theres a way to activate it right now, without the wait. Facebook gives developers early access to timeline so they can develop applications for it. However, you dont really have to be a real developer, just pretend to be one! Heres how. Step 1: Start Facebooks Developer Application Facebook has a page, a group and an application called Developer you want to click on the app, which you can find here. If youve never used this app before, youll need to allow it to access your basic information, the same way you would when launching anything else for the first time on Facebook. After youve installed the Developer tool, click on create a new app, a button that appears in the top right corner of the screen. Step Two: Make Up A Name Developer asks you to provide some information about this app you just clicked the create button for. A pop-up asks you to input a display name and a namespace, and two of them cant be exactly the same. Its simplest to type in your full name for the first field and then in the second area, type it in without any spaces between words. Then a security popup window pops up, asking you to type in the letters you see. Step Three: Launch Open Graph Within the left-hand column, click on the words open graph. Fill out two different verbs. You can use get profile or choose whatever you want. Now youre almost done. After a few minutes, your profile will display a notification across the top suggesting you try timeline. Click get itnow and start playing with your timeline. Notice the upgrade is irreversible, so dont shoot the messenger if you dont like it. Until the beta version of timeline becomes available to non-developers Facebook says this will happen on September 30 only people whove upgraded their profiles to timelines will be able to see your timeline. Readers, have you upgraded your profile to timeline yet? If so, did you do anything creative with your cover photo? Please share your experiences in the comments section. Guest writer Eti Suruzon is vice president of planning and media at Blink. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [How Facebook Manages 500+ Engineers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/08c890238e49/) (allfacebook.com, May 31, 2011) - [Set Up Shop On Facebook With RetailConnect](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cf3f4b98626b/) (allfacebook.com, August 29, 2011) - [50% Of College Students Are Scared About How Dependent They Are On Facebook](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a802a8c53467/) (allfacebook.com, October 17, 2011) - [Gap, Nordstrom, J.C. Penny, Gamestop Close Facebook Storefronts](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1825f7964eff/) (allfacebook.com, February 21, 2012) - [How To Make A Killer Timeline App For Facebook Retail](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1de5f810d0b0/) (allfacebook.com, February 23, 2012) ## Saved the same week - [Smokehouse Brewpub](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a8231c56a2ec/) (northboundbrewpub.com, September 22, 2011) - [LoFerno](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6f4481dae0dd/) (lohaus.com, September 22, 2011) - [zenhob/hcl - GitHub](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/23c2d7c85e43/) (github.com, September 23, 2011) - [How To: Get Started with the Open Graph](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4d7ae521ae16/) (developers.facebook.com, September 23, 2011) - [OSU Open Source Club Git - yanovich/phenny.git/tree - modules/](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cd2648e0bbe7/) (opensource.cse.ohio-state.edu, September 23, 2011) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://allfacebook.com/facebook-timeline-no-wait_b59878