diff --git a/zephyr/management/commands/runtornado.py b/zephyr/management/commands/runtornado.py
index 5f75cbd5bc..8f100a824f 100644
--- a/zephyr/management/commands/runtornado.py
+++ b/zephyr/management/commands/runtornado.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from tornado import ioloop
 from zephyr.lib.debug import interactive_debug_listen
 from zephyr.lib.response import json_response
 from zephyr.lib.queue import TornadoQueueClient
+from zephyr import tornado_callbacks
 
 # A hack to keep track of how much time we spend working, versus sleeping in
 # the event loop.
@@ -124,11 +125,14 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
             print "Quit the server with %s." % quit_command
 
             if settings.USING_RABBITMQ:
+                # Process notifications received via RabbitMQ
                 queue_client = TornadoQueueClient()
                 while not queue_client.ready():
                     step_tornado_ioloop()
 
-                # FIXME: Register consumer callbacks here
+                def process_notification(chan, method, props, data):
+                    tornado_callbacks.process_notification(data)
+                queue_client.register_json_consumer('notify_tornado', process_notification)
 
             try:
                 # Application is an instance of Django's standard wsgi handler.
diff --git a/zephyr/tornado_callbacks.py b/zephyr/tornado_callbacks.py
index 51c1fa0ed1..43b1c743a0 100644
--- a/zephyr/tornado_callbacks.py
+++ b/zephyr/tornado_callbacks.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from zephyr.models import Message, UserProfile, UserMessage, \
 
 from zephyr.decorator import JsonableError
 from zephyr.lib.cache_helpers import cache_get_message
+from zephyr.lib.queue import SimpleQueueClient
 
 import os
 import sys
@@ -247,7 +248,17 @@ def process_notification(data):
 #
 # We use JSON rather than bare form parameters, so that we can represent
 # different types and for compatibility with non-HTTP transports.
-def send_notification(data):
+
+def send_notification_http(data):
     requests.post(settings.TORNADO_SERVER + '/notify_tornado', data=dict(
         data   = simplejson.dumps(data),
         secret = settings.SHARED_SECRET))
+
+def send_notification_rabbitmq(data):
+    notification_queue.json_publish('notify_tornado', data)
+
+if settings.USING_RABBITMQ:
+    notification_queue = SimpleQueueClient()
+    send_notification  = send_notification_rabbitmq
+else:
+    send_notification  = send_notification_http