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how to insert any twitter user profile link while composing a tweet

I try to search a lot but did not get any solution, please help me with this. how do i insert any twitter user profile link while composing a tweet, its almost like mentioning someone but it shows a twitter user avatar & name just like in this tweet https://twitter.com/DepressedDarth/status/924689808265482240?screenshot from a tweet

Solution

  • If you use the API to look at the status, using https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show/924689808265482240.json this is what you'll see

    "text": "This is what I do for fun now https:\/\/t.co\/VNEAbw4YRC",

    The user has sent a Tweet containing a link. Where does t.co/VNEAbw4YRC point to?

    https://twitter.com/DepressedDarth/status/879169042426318848/video/1

    So, here's what the user has done.

    1. Post a video to Twitter - in this case, in June 2017.
    2. Wait several months.
    3. Copy the video URL of the Tweet - add /video/1 to it.
    4. Post a new Tweet and include the video URL of the old Tweet.

    Twitter will then render the Tweet with a link back to the original user who posted the video. I think they do this to prevent people just linking to a different user's video and then claiming it for themselves.