How to Get the Direct URL of a Tweet

Perhaps most likely, you are more web savvy than I, but for those of you that are not I thought I would share how to do something that until recently was a mystery to me: how to get the direct URL of a tweet.

Why would you need the direct url to a tweet? Well, in my case I wanted to get an extra entry to a $50 giveaway for a Chili’s gift card that A Nut in a Nutshell is hosting by tweeting about it (you can enter too by clicking on the link before May 17th). I knew how to do the tweeting part, but she asked that I provide the direct url to the tweet for my extra entry. Well, scratching my head in confusion after tweeting did not provide the direct url, but I figured it out. Here’s what you do:

• Go to Twitter and sign on
• Post a tweet. In my case it was:

Enter to win a Chili’s $50 gift card! @blueviolet #giveaway http://bit.ly/aF5bPR

• Click “Profile” in the upper right hand corner
• Locate your tweet
• Click on the time stamp link of the tweet (conveniently pointed out for you in above picture)
• This will take you to a page for that individual tweet
• Copy the url from the address bar

That concludes this episode of If Mami Can, You Can Too and remember: if Mami can, then you can too!