Pinning posts and tweets on Instagram and Twitter handles is an important thing today if you are an influencer selling products or courses or someone who needs to redirect your followers to a link.
So, do you want to know how to pin posts on Instagram for marketing purposes? Or do you want to let people on Twitter know your persona, values and voice using pinned post?
If you want to know, don’t worry because this article explains how to do it on both of the platforms. Continue reading this detailed guide to learn how to pin posts and tweets.
Pinning Instagram Posts to Your Main Account Profile Grid
Before doing this, you first need to check if you have installed the most recent version of Instagram. Navigate through your feed on the Instagram app and access your profile. To pin a post to your Instagram profile grid, click pin.
Tapping on an Instagram post will open it up and will show options to pin it. The post action menu will then appear when you tap the three dots menu in the top-right corner. Go to the menu and choose Pin to Your Profile.
If you want to verify that the post was pinned, return it to your Instagram account. Your post will display a white pin icon in the top-right corner, signifying that it has been pinned to the top of your Instagram profile grid.
(Note that any other symbols, like the video or Reels icons, that may have been displayed in your post are replaced by the pin icon.)
Repeat the exact method to pin more posts. You can pin three posts in total on Instagram.
Pinning Twitter tweets to profile
Twitter is another popular social media site where people like news reporters and journalists shine. Twitter is a very busy space where influencers get a lot of attention. If you are popular, you must pin your links or other details to your Twitter profile.
How can you pin your own tweets on your timeline?
Step 1: Scroll to your tweet and click the three dots in the upper left corner.
Step 2: Select the “Pin to your profile” option.
Step 3: Press the Pin icon.
When using Twitter, you can also pin others’ tweets and posts.
Guide to pin other Twitter user tweets on your Twitter profile.
If you want to pin someone’s tweet to your Twitter profile through a web browser, you must first sign into your account on mobile.twitter.com.
Find the tweet you wish to pin, then tap the menu icon with the upward arrow. Go to “Copy link to tweet.” Subsequently, return to your profile by touching on the icon and choosing “Profile.” Copy the link, create a new tweet, add any required hashtags or descriptions, and publish it.
After the tweet is posted, go back to your profile, find it, and select it by tapping the three dots menu. After selecting “Pin to your profile,” click “Pin” to confirm. Once you have done this, the tweet will be pinned to the top of your profile by Twitter.
How do you pin retweets on Twitter?
Take a look at how you can pin a retweeted tweet to your timeline now. The procedure to pin both your own and someone else’s retweets on your profile is the same.
It only takes a few seconds to quickly pin or retweet someone else’s tweet on your profile. You don’t need to worry because no information about the identity of the person who retweeted the original tweet will be shown on your profile.
With the use of the Quoted tweet feature, you can pin a retweet of the original message.
Step 1: Scroll through retweets to select a post. In the tweet you want to pin, click the arrow-box sign at the bottom.
Step 2: Choose “Quote Tweet.”
The last step of pinning and retweeting someone else’s tweet is the same. The quote tweet option allows you to add a comment or hashtag along with pasting the tweeted URLs into the box, just like when you pin a tweet.
Step 3: Select “Tweet,” located at the upper right corner of the website.
Step 4: select “Pin to your profile.”
Step 5: Click on Pin
Now, the tweets that are pinned show up at the top of your profile.
Final thoughts
So this is how you pin Instagram posts and tweets to your profile. Pinning is a useful feature in both of these platforms, so make use of it for promotion or other purposes.
