Twitter and Instagram are two of the most popular social networking sites that you can use for your personal as well as business use. Are you sharing the same content on these two platforms?
Then the best and most seamless way to share those contents is by linking your Twitter account with your Instagram account. Wondering how to link Instagram to Twitter? Well, you are at the right place.
Can you link Twitter to an Instagram account?
Yes, you can connect the two social media accounts (Twitter and Instagram) together. It is one of the best ways to share your Instagram photos with your Twitter followers too.
Linking these two accounts together will also help you in saving your time in uploading the same photo individually in two separate accounts. To know how you can connect, read below.
How to link Twitter to an Instagram account?
You can link your Twitter social account with your Instagram one in a simple and easy way.
To link or connect these two social media accounts together, follow these steps:
- First, open your Instagram account and then go to your profile page
- Now, you have to click on the menu (three lines) present on the top right-hand corner of the Instagram app
- Tap on ‘Settings’ and then go to ‘Account’ and then ‘Linked Accounts’
- You will see the option ‘Twitter’
- Tap there and you will have to authorize it by entering your Twitter username or email id and password
- Tap on the ‘Authorize app’ button and you are done
Why should you connect your Instagram to Twitter?
Once you connect your two social media accounts together, you can seamlessly share your Instagram content with your Twitter account. This can be beneficial for your business account as well as your personal account.
But this doesn’t mean that whenever you share a photo on Instagram, it will automatically share the same on Twitter. You will be in complete charge of which photos you want to publish and which you don’t on Twitter.
When you are uploading a photo on Instagram, you will see there are different options for sharing in the final screen before posting the page.
This page is where you write the caption, add the location or tag someone. At the bottom of the same page, you will see a list of the social media account that you have linked on your Instagram account. You will also get a toggle switch beside every social media account. If you want to share, just toggle on the Twitter account and your post will be shared automatically.
How to unlink your Twitter handle from your Instagram?
If you want to unlink the Twitter account from the Instagram, then you have to follow these steps:
- Open the Instagram app and login into your account
- Go to the profile page and then to the ‘menu’ (top right corner)
- Select settings and then go to ‘Accounts’
- Under the linked accounts, you will have to tap on Twitter
- You will get an option to remove the account
- Do it and you are done
Can’t link Instagram to Twitter
As mentioned above, linking these two social media accounts is quite an easy job. If you are not able to, then it can be a temporary bug. You can wait for a few hours before you try again.
If you still cannot, then make sure you are inserting the accurate credentials of your Twitter account on your Instagram.
When you use the wrong username and password combination, the authorization can fail. Hence, you will not be able to link the accounts together. Log out of Instagram and make sure you are logged out of other devices too. Wait for a few minutes and then try again.
Summing up
These are some of the simple and easy solutions on how you can link the two social media accounts i.e. Instagram and Twitter successfully. Following the above-mentioned steps can help you in linking as well as unlinking it whenever necessary.
Linking or connecting these two accounts can be quite helpful for you to share content seamlessly on the social media platform. You will not have to post the same content separately on two different accounts and type the same caption again and again.
