How to share a YouTube video on Twitter in 2 simple ways

If ever there was a perfect pairing of two different media platforms, it's YouTube and Twitter. The former makes it easy to upload all sorts of video content, while the latter makes sharing it with your followers as simple as a few clicks.

And who knows — your followers might just retweet the video and make it go viral.

Before that can happen, though, you need to know how to share YouTube videos to Twitter. There are two ways, and they're both pleasantly simple.

How to share a YouTube video on Twitter from YouTube's sharing menu

1. On a desktop browser, while logged into both your YouTube and Twitter accounts, go to the YouTube video you want to share.

2. Click the word SHARE underneath the video, and then hit the Twitter icon to draft a tweet with the video link embedded.

3. Add any text you'd like to the tweet, then hit Tweet.

How to share a YouTube video on Twitter with a link

To share a YouTube video directly via Twitter, you need only copy the video's URL and paste it into a tweet.You can copy the URL from the URL bar at the top of your browser, or by right-clicking the video and selecting Copy video URL.