How do you share a tweet to a story?

If you use both Twitter and Instagram, you’ve probably run into a situation where you wanted to share a tweet to Instagram Stories, which wasn’t possible natively until recently. With so much great content on Twitter, it’s no surprise that users often take screenshots of posts on the platform to share on other social networks. A popular place to post this content is Instagram.

However, you can only do this if you’re using an iPhone, as the tool hasn’t been implemented for Android yet. However, you can share using an external app on Android. So if you want to know how to do it, read our article below!

How to Share a Tweet on Instagram Story on Android/iOS

How to share a tweet on IG Stories on iPhone

• Open the Twitter app on your iPhone.
• Tap the Share button on the tweet you want to share.
• Select Instagram Stories.
• You will be redirected to the Instagram app. Now move or resize the tweet tag.
• You can choose to share the tweet with just one person, close friends, or all of your followers.
• Now, tap on the arrow button at the bottom right to share the story.

How to add a tweet in Instagram Stories on Android

Screenshot and crop

• Open the Twitter app.
• Now take a screenshot of the tweet you want to share on your Instagram Stories.
• Then crop the tweet using any photo editing app.
• Next, open the Instagram app.
• Now swipe right from the home screen or press + in the top left corner and scroll to Story at the bottom.
• Tap the Gallery icon at the bottom left.
• Next, select the cropped screenshot of the tweet you want to share.
• Now, tap on the Send To button to share the tweet on Instagram Stories.

IG photo library tag

• Launch the Instagram app.
• Now swipe right from the home screen or hit the + icon at the top left.
• Scroll down to History at the bottom.
• Click or select a random image and tap the drawing tool button at the top.
• Now select a color of your choice.
• Long press to change the background color.
• Swipe up and choose the photo tag, and select the cropped tweet from the gallery.
• Now tap Send To.

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Are you someone who loves resharing from one app to another? Well then, you must love to share every tweet that you come across on your Twitter feed to Instagram for both of these apps are highly in demand. 

However, sharing between Twitter and Instagram could get a little confusing for Twitter hasn’t developed a feature that allows users to easily share a tweet directly to Instagram stories.

In this article, I am going to tell you how you can share a tweet from your Twitter account to your Instagram story for both iOS users and Android users. 

How to Share a Tweet on Instagram Stories on Iphone Without Screenshotting

iOS users will be happy to hear that Twitter has finally added a feature where they can easily share tweets from their Twitter account to the Instagram story without screenshotting. Yes, you heard us right; the hassle has come to an end for you all. 

Here’s how you can add a tweet to your Instagram story without screenshotting: 

• On your iPhone, launch the Twitter app.
• To share a tweet, click the “Share” button next to it.
• Choose Instagram stories from the options that appear.

• You’ll be taken to the Instagram app. Adjust the tweet sticker’s position or size on the story now as you prefer. 
• Now, you can share it with one user, in your close friend’s story, or with your entire following. 

• To share the story, click the arrow located in the lower right corner.

How to Add a Tweet on Instagram Stories on Android

This section is for our Android users that face difficulty in sharing their tweets or tweets from other accounts on their Instagram Story.

Well, you must know that Twitter hasn’t added the Share feature for Android users, via which they can easily connect the two apps. 

So, you will have to use a little twisted way to add a tweet to an Instagram story. However, the process is quite simple and shouldn’t take more than three to five minutes.

So, let’s start with the procedure. We have two ways that can be used for the same:

Using Cropped Tweet Screenshot

The first method is by using the screenshot of the tweet that you want to share on Instagram and adding that screenshot from the gallery to the story.

Here are the steps to this process: 

1. Launch the Twitter app on your Android device.
2. Now capture a screenshot of the tweet from your Twitter account that you want to post to your Instagram Stories.
3. Use any photo editing tool to crop the tweet after that. Crop the screenshot in a way that only the tweet is visible. 
4. Then, launch the Instagram app.
5. Now, swipe towards the right on your homepage to open the Camera. 
6. At the lower left of the screen, you will see a Photos icon, tap on it.
7. Choose the cropped version of the tweet that you edited earlier from the gallery. 
8. To share the tweet on Instagram Stories, tap the Send button now.

Using Photo Library Sticker

Another method to add a tweet to your Instagram story is by using the “Add yours” sticker on Instagram, which enables you to add a photo from your gallery and add a colorful background as well.

Here are the steps to this method: 

1. Open the Instagram app on your device.
2. Now, from the home screen, swipe right to open the camera. 
3. Either click a random photo on your camera or choose a random photo from your gallery (from the Gallery icon that appears at the bottom left corner when you open your camera on Instagram). 
4. Then, tap on the drawing tool icon located at the top-right side of the story screen. Choose a color that you want in the background of your story. Most users choose white, or black.  
5. And to change the background color, long-press on the screen with the drawing tool. 
6. Swipe up to select the photo sticker, and then, choose the cropped tweet from the gallery.
7. Lastly, tap on the Send button to share the story on your account. 

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Now Share Tweets to Instagram Easily

With Twitter’s introduction of the sharing feature for iOS users, it made the transfer of tweets from Twitter to Instagram stories a lot easier. It quickened the whole process, and we are expecting the same for Android users as well. 

We are certain that Twitter will develop this feature for them too. However, it might take some time. Till then, you can use the process that we have mentioned above as it is just as efficient and not time-consuming.

I hope this article helped you understand how one can share a tweet on an Instagram story. If you have any queries, let us know in the comments below! 

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