In this post, you’ll learn how to share someone’s Twitter video without having to retweet them and why this is incredibly important.

For example, when you retweet someone, your post typically will look like this:

Retweeting is fine and is certainly encouraged.

But sometimes, instead of retweeting someone, you should embed their active video in your own Tweet.

Doing this not only makes your post look nicer, but this also gives you the ability to change the text when posting the video.

If you’re not familiar, when you retweet something, you’re unable to change the wording or anything of that Tweet.

So how do you post a Twitter video without retweeting the original post?

There’s a very simple way to do this… but you have to be on a mobile device.

Here is how to Tweet someone’s video from another Tweet:

Step 1 — Scroll over and view the Tweet/video that you want to embed and post.

Step 2 — Tap and hold down on the “play button” for the Tweet’s video

Step 3 — Select the “Tweet Video” icon at the bottom of your screen.

You’ll then be given a URL (like what you see below).

Once you compose your message and post the Tweet, you’ll successfully post a video on Twitter (see below) without having to retweet it from someone.