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Hi everyone!

I was wondering how can I tweak the code for making the status update accept some basic HTML formatting (like the comments do).
Currently if I paste this into the status update:

<code>

hello<br />people <span style=”font-weight: bold;”>this should be bold</span><br /><a href=”http://sdfsfsff”>this is a link</a>

</code>

I get an unformatted string were only the LINK is actually conserved.

Any ideas were to start??

Thanks a lot!!!