Editor’s note: This article was first published in November 2010. It describes how Twitter then played YouTube videos inside the timeline when shared through a youtu.be link; Twitter is now X and the procedure is obsolete. The remark that Spaniards barely use Twitter also reflects 2010.
Twitter has taken another step in the evolution of its network to get closer to the mighty Facebook, something it is gradually achieving. You can now post a video on Twitter so your followers can watch it without leaving the platform. Here’s how to do it, step by step.
Once you’ve found the video on YouTube, you need to use YouTube’s link shortener. Copy the video’s ID, the code that appears at the end of the URL, and add it to the end of this link: http://youtu.be/VIDEO_ID. As you’ll see, the process is very simple. By the way, I’ve noticed that we Spaniards don’t use Twitter much.
To watch the videos your Twitter contacts share, just look in your timeline for tweets marked with the video icon.
Featured image: Runner1928, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
