How to put twitter on instagram


How to Link Instagram to Twitter and Tweet All Your Photos

You put great pictures on Instagram. Everyone's noticed...except for your Twitter followers. Why aren't you sharing your photos on Twitter?

If the only thing stopping you is the extra work of uploading photos a second time, don't worry: You can link Instagram to Twitter, so photos tweet automatically. There are two main ways to do this.

4 workflows to better market your brand on social media

Read now

The first, provided by Instagram, is easy to set up and allows you to decide whether or not to push an image to Twitter as you post to Instagram. The downside: the actual photo doesn't show up on Twitter. Instead, followers will see a link to the photo on Instagram. (If you remember this working differently at some point, you're right: before 2014 Instagram would push the images to Twitter.)

Happily, there's another method: You can link Instagram to Twitter using Zapier. It's a little more work to set up, but you only have to do so once for all of your Instagram photos to actually show up on Twitter.

Let's go over both methods, so you can choose the one that's right for you.

Table of contents

  • How to link Instagram to Twitter within the app

  • How to automatically tweet your Instagram photos with Zapier

How to Link Instagram to Twitter and automatically tweet links to photos

If you want to tweet links to your Instagram photos, so that Twitter followers have to click through to Instagram in order to see your photos, you can do that from inside the Instagram app. To get started head to your profile, then tap the menu button in the top-right corner. Open Settings > Account.

Head to Linked Accounts > Twitter and you can log into your Twitter account.

You can now tweet photos while uploading them to Instagram by turning on the Twitter switch before posting.

Like we said before, this will only tweet a link to your photo on Instagram—the photo itself will not show up. If you want people to click through to Instagram and potentially follow you there, this might be a good thing. The downside, of course, is people are less likely to notice your post in the first place.

How to automatically tweet photos by linking Instagram to Twitter using Zapier

Want your Twitter followers to actually see your Instagram photo as they scroll through their timelines? Instagram doesn't offer that functionality, but we do. You can connect Instagram to Twitter using Zapier to automatically tweet all of your Instagram photos going forward. Here's how you can create a Zap—the automated workflows you create with Zapier—to make it happen:

Option 1: Get started quickly with a Zap template

We have a template to help you get started quickly. Click the button below and you'll be guided through setup. You'll need to create a Zapier account if you don't already have one.

Tweet Instagram Pictures with Image Preview

Tweet Instagram Pictures with Image Preview

Try it

Instagram, Twitter

Instagram + Twitter

Here's how it works: 

  1. Click on the button.  

  2. Connect your Instagram and Twitter accounts.

  3. Decide how you want your tweet to look by mapping fields from Instagram.

  4. Choose whether you'd like Zapier to automatically shorten URLs in your tweet. 

  5. Test your workflow and turn it on.

Option 2: Create your own Zap

If you'd like more control over the information in your Zap or would like to add additional actions—for example, maybe you want to tweet your Instagram photos and pin them to a Pinterest board—you can click here to create a new Zap from scratch. 

You'll be asked to create a Zapier account if you haven't already. Once you're signed in, you need to set up your trigger—the event that starts your Zap. 

Search for and select Instagram as your trigger app, and select New Media Posted in My Account as the trigger event. Click Continue.

If you haven't connected your Instagram account to Zapier before, click on Choose an account… and then + Connect a new account. Any Instagram accounts you've previously connected will be available in the dropdown menu.

For each app you connect, Zapier will ask for a general set of permissions which allows you to be flexible with your Zaps. The only actions Zapier takes on your app accounts are those a given Zap needs to accomplish what you've set up.

Once you've connected your Instagram account, click Continue. 

You'll be prompted to test this trigger step. When you click the Test trigger button, Zapier will look for a recent post in your Instagram account.

You'll use this sample to set up and test the next step in your Zap.

Once you have a successful test, click Continue. 

Next, you'll set up your action. This is the event you want your Zap to perform once it's triggered. Search for and select Twitter as your action app and Create Tweet as your action event. Click Continue.  

If you haven't connected your Twitter account to Zapier before, click on Choose an account… and then + Connect a new account. If you have a Twitter account you've previously connected and want to use, select it from the dropdown menu.

Once you've connected your Twitter account, click Continue. 

Now it's time to customize your tweet. You can either type in text—which will appear the same each time your Zap runs—or you can select data from Instagram to use. 

In this example, I want to include "From Instagram" every time Zapier tweets a photo from my account, so I'm including that text in the Message field. 

If you want to include the original caption and link to the Instagram post, click inside the Message field. You'll see a list of data from your Instagram trigger you tested earlier. Select Caption to use the original Instagram caption and Permalink for the Instagram post link.  

Note: If you tend to write long Instagram captions that are more than Twitter's 280 character limit, you'll want to add a Formatter step prior to your Twitter action to truncate your text. Learn more about truncating text with Formatter.

To configure the image or media that will be in your tweet, click on the Image, Video or GIF field. Select Media URL from the dropdown menu. This is the media from your Instagram trigger that you tested earlier. When you turn your Zap on, this ensures that Zapier will be tweeting your latest Instagram photos and videos.

By default, Zapier will shorten any URLs included in your tweet. (Characters are precious!) But if you want to turn this off, you can change this by clicking on the dropdown under Should Shorten URLs

When you've finished setting up your tweet, click Continue. 

Now it's time to test the action. Zapier will tweet your Instagram photo according to how you set it up.  

If you click on Test and Review, you'll stay in the same window in the Zap editor and you'll see a success message if everything worked. If there's a problem with the test, you'll see an error message here instead. 

If you want to skip this test, click the Skip Test link. 

Once you've tested your Zap (or decided to skip it), turn it on by clicking the Publish button at the top or bottom of your screen.

From now on your Instagram photos will automatically also show up on Twitter.

Connect Instagram to other apps

Want your Instagram photos to show up on other social networks? Here are a few Zaps to help you set that up:

Share your new Instagram posts to your Facebook page

Share your new Instagram posts to your Facebook page

Try it

Instagram, Facebook Pages

Instagram + Facebook Pages

Pin your new Instagram posts on Pinterest

Pin your new Instagram posts on Pinterest

Try it

Instagram, Pinterest

Instagram + Pinterest

Buffer your Instagram photos

Buffer your Instagram photos

Try it

Instagram, Buffer

Instagram + Buffer

Check out our Instagram integrations for more, and to learn how to make your own.

This piece was originally published on September 16, 2019, written by Justin Pot. It was substantially updated in December 2021, by Krystina Martinez.

How to Find Your Twitter URL to Share on Instagram, Facebook and More

Twitter is a great social media platform but its usability seems to go from bad to worse with each interface update. In fact, it is so confusing that many users find themselves wondering how to find and share their Twitter profile URL. 

With that in mind, I have put together this quick tutorial answering the popular questions:

  • What is my Twitter URL?
  • How to find my twitter URL on the app?
  • How to I share my Twitter account?
    • How do I put my Twitter link on Instagram?
    • Put your Twitter link on Facebook
    • Put your Twitter link in your Gmail signature

How to find my Twitter URL on the app?

  • In your Twitter app, tap your profile pic in the top-left and tap “Profile”
  • Choose any of your tweets on your profile feed and tap “share” icon
  • Next, tap “Copy link to tweet”
The official Twitter application doesn’t make it easy to find your Twitter profile URL, so here’s a three-step workaround

Now, to share this link, you can copy-paste the link whenever you need but delete the part after your username:

Remove everything before username/ to get your actual profile link
  • Delete the numbers after /username/ part in the URL
  • Press and hold the URL to highlight it
  • Tap copy in the copy-paste menu
  • Next press and hold to paste the URL where you want to send it (your message or social media DM)

How to find what my Twitter URL is?

Basically your Twitter URL consists of twitter. com plus your username, so it is quite easy to type it if you remember your username:

The anatomy of any Twitter profile URL: twitter.com + / + username

If you are not sure what your Twitter username is or you just want to make sure you type everything right before sending it, it is best to copy-paste your Twitter link.

How to find my Twitter URL using a desktop browser?

On desktop finding your Twitter URL is very easy:

  • Open twitter.com in any browser and login
  • Click “Profile” in the left column
  • Copy the URL in the browser address bar
This is how to find your Twitter web address to share

How do I share my Twitter account?

Now that you know your Twitter profile URL, feel free to paste it anywhere to share, including email message, Twitter DMs, Facebook comments, etc. 

One of the best ways to build followers on Twitter is to share your Twitter URL with friends. This link will send friends directly to your Twitter account for them to follow you.  

Here are a few suggestions:

Put your Twitter link on Instagram

  • Login to your Instagram account and click / tap your profile picture to go to your Instagram profile page
  • Click / tap “Edit profile”
  • Paste your Twitter account link in the “Website” field
Put your Twitter link on Instagram

Keep in mind that Instagram allows only one link inside the bio section, so you will only be able to link to your Twitter profile there.

Here’s also how to change your Instagram username.

Put your Twitter link on Facebook

  • Login to your Facebook account
  • Click / tap your profile pic to got to your profile page
  • Click / tap “Update info”
  • Go to “Basic and Contact info”
  • Click / tap “Add another social link” in the “Websites and Social Links” section underneath “Social links” section
  • Select “Twitter” in the dropdown
  • Type your Twitter profile name
  • Select who can see your Twitter profile
Put your Twitter link on Facebook

Put your Twitter link in your Gmail signature

  • Login to your Gmail account
  • Click / tap the “Settings” icon
  • Scroll down to “Signature” section
  • Write a quick message and paste your Twitter URL:
From now on, any time you send anyone an email message, Gmail will include this message at the bottom of your message automatically. Bring in followers with each email!

If you are still struggling, get yourself a book!

Takeaways: How to find what my Twitter URL is

  • The easiest way is to type twitter.com/username which is what your Twitter web address is
  • On desktop, login to your Twitter account in any web browser and go to your profile page to copy your Twitter URL
  • Using Twitter app, copy any of your tweets from your profile page, paste that URL in Safari (or any other mobile browser) and delete everything before username/
  • Include your Twitter link in Instagram, Facebook or email messages to get followers
Watch our video summary: How to find my Twitter URL on the app and on desktop

Post Tags: #twitter

Similar Posts

Connect

How to Bold Youtube Comments As Well As Italicize, Strikethrough and MORE

ByStan Profy

Apart from the obvious one (i. e. creating a line break by clicking Enter), these include the ability to use bold, italics, and strikethrough text to style your comment. There are a few more ideas to format Youtube comments too

Read More How to Bold Youtube Comments As Well As Italicize, Strikethrough and MOREContinue

How to link to Instagram in your bio on Twitter

Content:

Do you want to link to Instagram in your Twitter biography? Cross-promotion of your social networks through other social networks is a great idea as you can expand your reach.

If you have one social network account that has a lot more followers than another, you can promote your other social networks from your bio.

Instagram only allows you to add one link to your bio, which is very scarce.

Thus, it will be very important for you to aggressively encourage others to click on the link in your bio.

Techniques such as adding a sentence in the line " click the link in the bio to learn more " in the photo caption or adding a swipe up feature are used to increase link clicks on Instagram.

However, the swipe up feature is only available to those with over 10,000 followers, a huge minority on Instagram.

On the other hand, Twitter allows you to add more than one link to your bio, which is very useful if you want to promote more than one website.

Twitter is very generous with the number of links you can include in your bio and in your tweets. Yes, you can add links to your tweets.

Conversely, Instagram doesn't allow links in your post captions, making promotion much more difficult.

After all, Instagram hopes to keep its users on the app, not alienate them. They achieve this by reducing the number of links you can include per platform.

Twitter is less strict in this regard as you can use your bio to promote one website and the website field to promote another.

Read on to learn how to link to Instagram in your Twitter bio (even if you have a link to another website).

How to link to Instagram in your bio on Twitter

Putting an Instagram link in your Twitter bio is easy: you find the link on Instagram, copy and paste it into your Twitter bio.

But the step that many people are unsure about is finding your Instagram link.

No wonder you don't know how to get the Instagram link because it's hard to find in the app itself.

There is no easy way to copy the Instagram link from within the app. You will need to dig deeper into the app to find it.

However, once you do, you can copy the link, paste it, or share it anywhere.

That said, it's still the norm to give someone your Instagram username whenever they ask you for your Instagram.

This is because they can easily find your Instagram by typing your username in the search bar.

What's more, every Instagram username is unique (unlike first names), so knowing someone's username is the best way to find someone on Instagram.

But if you have another social media account (like Twitter) and your followers don't know you personally, having your Instagram link in your Twitter bio is a great way to find and follow you on Instagram.

This guide will show you how.

1. Copy the link in Instagram.

First, you need to find and copy the link in Instagram.

So you can edit your Twitter bio and paste it right there.

But how to find a link to Instagram? There are two ways to get an Instagram link.

First, all you need to do is enter: https://www.instagram.com/yourusername.

instagram.com/followchainorg

Each Instagram account has a unique URL that has your username on the back.

In other words, each Instagram URL label (the last part of the URL) is a username.

Secondly, you can find and copy the Instagram link in the app itself.

Here is a step by step guide on how to find and copy the Instagram link in the app itself:

  • Open the Instagram app.
  • Click on your profile.
  • Click on the menu icon in the top right corner.
  • Select "QR code".
  • Click the share icon in the top right corner.
  • Scroll down and select "Copy" to copy the Instagram link.

Now that you've copied the link, you can share it anywhere.

Although the link is your Instagram name tag, anyone who clicks on it will be redirected to your Instagram profile where they can follow you.

2. Go to your Twitter profile.

Once you've copied the Instagram link, open Twitter and go to your Twitter profile.

Your profile is located at the far left of the top navigation bar on Twitter.

To go to your profile, click on your profile picture in the upper left corner.

Then select "Profile" to go to your Twitter profile.

3. Click Edit Profile.

Next, you want to find a button labeled "Edit Profile".

The button is located in the upper right corner of your profile, below your profile banner.

Click on this button and you will be redirected to a screen where you can edit your profile.

4. Paste the Instagram link into your bio.

Then you need to find the section labeled "Bio".

The section is under your name.

In the biography section, you can add a description of yourself, the content you post, or a few links.

You can also link another Twitter profile without having to link by adding an @ sign followed by the account username.

If you want to add your Instagram link to it, just click on the bio field and select "insert".

You should be able to paste your Instagram link into your Twitter bio if you copied it to your clipboard from step 1.

Finally, click Save to save your Twitter bio and your Instagram link has now been successfully added to your Twitter bio.

5. Alternatively, you can add it as a website.

Alternatively, if you don't want to add an Instagram link directly to your profile description, you can add it as a website.

The great thing about Twitter is that you can add multiple links to your bio.

You can add multiple links to your bio description, and you can also add another link in the website field of your bio.

To do this, go back to your profile and select Edit Profile.

At the bottom of the screen, above the Date of Birth field, there is a Website field.

Paste the Instagram link into the website field, then click "Save" to save your bio to Twitter.

You have successfully posted an Instagram link in your Twitter bio!

Frequently Asked Questions

How to get Instagram URL?

There are two ways to get the Instagram URL.

The first way is to add your Instagram username to the end of the Instagram URL (for example, https://www.instagram.com/yourusername).

For example, if your username is @followchainorg, your Instagram URL is https://www.instagram.com/followchainorg.

The second way is to copy the link to Instagram through the Instagram app.

You can do this by opening the Instagram app > profile > menu > QR code > Share > Copy.

Can you add links to Twitter?

Yes, you can link to Twitter. Anyone can add links to their Twitter biography, regardless of account type.

You can also add links to your tweets. If you have an article that you want to share on Twitter, you can add a link to it in your tweet.

How do I link to my Twitter bio?

To place a link in your Twitter bio, go to your profile, select Edit Profile, and paste the link into the website field.

Alternatively, you can add a link directly to your Twitter bio and it will be automatically shortened and hyperlinked.

For example, if you add an Instagram link (for example, https://www.instagram.com/followchainorg) to your Twitter bio, it will be automatically redirected and shortened to instagram.com/followchainorg.

You can try it yourself.

Can you add more than one website to Twitter?

Yes, you can add multiple websites to Twitter. Twitter allows you to have multiple links on your profile, so you don't have to use a universal link building tool.

You can add more than one link to your Twitter bio if you want to promote multiple websites.

You can also add a website via the website field in your profile.

How do I remove a link from my Twitter biography?

To remove a link from your Twitter bio, go to your profile and click Edit Profile.

Then remove the links you added to your bio description (if any) and remove the link you added to the website field (if any).

Conclusion

In this article, you learned how to add an Instagram link to your Twitter bio.

Adding your social media (not just your Instagram link) is a great way to get people to follow you across multiple platforms.

This is especially useful if your username is different from other social networks.

This allows people to easily find your other social networks without asking you for your name.

4 ways to post automatically and for free from Instagram to Twitter

Social networks are not very fond of when users place links in their posts leading to competing information sources. Surprisingly, in the early days of social media, many of them supported either automatic posting to other networks. Or they were able to "monitor" a certain resource, and then, again automatically, create announcements with the desired link.

Since then - not all, but many social networks have changed their policies. Reposts in "foreign" social networks and sites suddenly became undesirable. Accordingly, you can forget about convenient mechanisms when a post in one social network also gains readers from other social networks. This is exactly the situation with the automatic publication of posts on Twitter from Instagram.


However, there is a way out of the situation. There are a number of online services for automatically posting Instagram to Twitter.

If you want to automatically share photos you upload to Instagram to Twitter, you will need some tools. There are paid and free services, but we will consider free options. They are easy enough to use. So, below are a number of services that monitor your Instagram account and send notifications of new posts to your Twitter feed. Everything is simple.

Some of the services allow you to sign reposts, or pause them whenever you want. Some of these tools post the photo to Instagram instantly and some post it after a while. Based on your needs, you can choose the right tool for you and then customize it.

So, when you share your Instagram post directly from the Instagram app installed on your device, you are prompted to get the URL on the Instagram site where your follower should go. This makes sense from an Instagram point of view - yes, you can share a link to a photo, but a new user must view it directly on the Instagram resource. But, let's say, this will cause some inconvenience to a Twitter user. He's used to seeing photos in the tweets themselves. And then he is forced to follow the link, wasting his own time (albeit a couple of seconds to download) and mobile traffic (traffic will be spent anyway, but in the case of Instagram it will be more)

If you want to upload an image as a Twitter post, you will need external tools. Consider the 4 most convenient services. You just need to add your Instagram and Twitter account details to them, and then they will take care of the rest. There are some restrictions in the free version, for ordinary Instagram users this will not cause any restrictions.

Free Instagram to Twitter Automatic Posting Services

Tweet Photo is one of the best free websites you can use to add new Instagram posts to Twitter automatically. This is the simplest tool described in the article, which takes almost no time to set up. You simply authorize your Twitter account, your Instagram account, and that's it. The service starts immediately. It will publish new posts from Instagram within a couple of minutes after setting it up.

Other online services will give a similar result, but it will take some time. In some services, you don't even need to create an account! The service publishes a photo, and also indicates the original caption and hashtags in the tweet.

Again, you don't need to create an account to use it, you just go to the tool's home page and log in to your Instagram and Twitter accounts. The next thing you need to do is simply create a new Instagram post and publish it. You will see that the same post will be published on Twitter in a few seconds. And this will continue as long as you have access to your Twitter and Instagram account.

You may have heard of IFTTT. It is a powerful automated message, post, and email processing service that performs an action when a certain condition occurs. There is an impressive list of applets that you can choose from and enable. Let's say you can easily monitor posts from a specific location, with specific words, or authors with specific names, and send out messages as social media posts or create reports in cloud storage.

Luckily, the service also supports Instagram integration with Twitter. IFTTT has a ready-made applet that looks for a new post in your account and posts images from it to Twitter. Note that the service will skip posts with multiple photos. To start processing, you just need to go to the service, and then authorize your accounts there.

To use IFTTT, you will need to register for a free account. Then you go to the "Services" section and authorize your Instagram and Twitter account. Now, the next thing left is to simply find the applet you need and then activate it.

You can use this link to find the "Share your Instagram posts as photos on Twitter" applet. Next, you activate the service and start testing. Since your Instagram and Twitter account is already logged in, the applet will start working immediately.

In this step, you have set up IFTTT to automatically post your new Instagram posts to Twitter. Now he will continue to post photos whenever there is a new post. When you want to stop, just turn off the applet. Or you can remove IFTTT from the authorized apps section in your Twitter and Instagram account settings.

Zapier is an automation service that you can use to automatically post new posts to Instagram. This is a very simple and powerful tool in which you use the principle of a trigger - when a condition is met, a certain action occurs.

You can set new media posts to appear in your Instagram account as a trigger and set dates to automatically create a Tweet with a photo from an Instagram post. As with all the other services in this post, you will need to authorize your Instagram and Twitter account. The workflow you create to post Instagram to Twitter is called a Zap. The zap runs every five minutes and tweets a photo if it finds it. Thus, the publication is not instantaneous. and a few minutes later.

You must create a free Zapier account before using the service. The first thing you have to do is select a trigger service. In this case, you will have to select Instagram as the trigger. After that, you will have to authorize your Instagram account.

Now you must specify what action to take if the trigger fires. In the action, you select the app as Twitter and the action is "Create Tweet Image". Next, you log in to your Twitter account and continue.

Now you need to specify the Twitter post parameters. In the title field, enter the Instagram title. And in the image content field, you specify the URL of the image. If you want to add something extra to the title field, you can specify that as well.

Now turn on the Zap and do a test run. If all is well, it will show you a preview of the tweet. You can then save the Zap and instruct it to automatically start a post when you upload a new image to your Instagram account.

So you can set up this Zapier service to automatically post the photos you upload to Instagram. It checks for a new photo on your Instagram every 5 minutes. This, by the way, is less than the check interval in alternative IFTTT and Microsoft Flow services. So, if you want to post an Instagram photo to Twitter within 5 minutes, Zapier can be considered the best option.

Microsoft Flow is a lot like IFTTT, but a little faster. Like IFTTT, there is a long list of services you can use to create a stream. Microsoft Flow in free mode allows you to create an unlimited number of posting rules (unlike IFTTT), but there is a limit on the total number of launches - 750 times per month. In addition, the time interval between two subsequent publications is at least 15 minutes, which, however, is acceptable if you do not want your photos to be published instantly. The service supports the integration of Instagram and Twitter, which is what we need. You just need to turn on the desired algorithm (here it is called "flow") and authorize your Instagram and Twitter accounts. The service will publish the image from your post to Instagram and add a caption to the tweet.

You need a Microsoft account to use Microsoft Flow. After logging in, you can immediately configure the algorithm you need. In the "Templates" section, find Instagram. Use the "Share my new Instagram photos to Twitter" template. Next, you will be asked to specify and log in to your Twitter and Instagram accounts. After you authorize your accounts, you can test the work, after which the service will automatically publish tweets for you, depending on the free quota in your account.

So you can use Microsoft Flow to post your new Instagram photos to Twitter automatically. After Tweet Photos, this is the easiest service to use. You just need to include the Twitter and Instagram modules in your stream and then it will take care of the rest.

Totals

If you're looking for a free way to automatically post new photos from Instagram to Twitter, use the options above. All the services that have been mentioned here, after authorization by Instagram, allow you to publish your photos from Instagram to Twitter. If you change your mind about auto-posting at one point, you have two options to stop it. You either go to the auto repost app and disable it, or you just deauthorize that app in your Instagram settings.


Learn more