How to Share a Video on Twitter Without Retweeting

If you want share someone’s twitter video without retweeting, you can follow this trick. Here are the exact steps that might help you share someone’s video on Twitter without retweeting the entire tweet.

Often we want to retweet a video, image, text, etc. on Twitter. We often like the original tweet, and some people want to make changes as per their desire. If you’re someone who wants to share a video of someone, but don’t want to post the original tweet, this article might be useful for you. It will allow you to post the original video of the original tweet without displaying all the text. Twitter lists the source name so no one else can take credit for the original content.

How to Share a Twitter Video Without Retweeting

To share a video to Twitter without retweeting, follow these steps-

1. Open a tweet containing a video.
2. Click the Share button and select Copy Link to Tweet.
3. Compose a tweet for your profile.
4. Paste the tweet URL.
5. Delete additional parameters.
6. Type /video/1 at the end.
7. Write the desired text for the tweet.
8. Click the Tweet button.

Let’s detail the steps.

At first, you need to get the URL of the tweet, which contains a video. You can find such a tweet from any user on Twitter. Once you get the video or tweet, click on the date/time of the tweet. This step helps you get rid of any confusion to get the URL when you found a retweet on the timeline.

If you have a simple tweet, it is not necessary to click on the date/time of the tweet.

Now click on the “share” like button and select Copy link to Tweet.

Next, you need to compose a tweet for your profile. In the composition section, write the desired text and paste the previously copied URL. It might look something like this-

https://twitter.com/<username>/status/1234567890?s=

You need to remove the extra parameter (?s=20) from the URL and write this-

/video/1

For example, the previously mentioned URL would look like this:

https://twitter.com/username/status/1234567890/video/1

Now you can click the Tweet button to post it. It should look like this-

That’s it!

I hope this tutorial will be useful to you.