How to clean an X (Twitter) share link

X/Twitter share links carry t= and s= share-identifier tokens that tie the click back to your account. Strip them before forwarding — LinkClean does it host-scoped to x.com / twitter.com.

When you hit Share on a tweet, X gives you a URL like https://x.com/handle/status/1234567890?t=AbCdEf-12345_xyz&s=20. The t= and s= parameters are X's share-identifier tokens: t encodes the sharing session, s encodes which surface the share came from (the iOS app, the web client, a third-party tool).

Critically, t= is a tracker here but it's the timestamp parameter on YouTube. That's the kind of name collision that breaks naive cleaners — strip t= everywhere and YouTube share links lose their start-at-N-seconds behavior. LinkClean handles this by host-scoping the t/s rules to x.com / twitter.com only.

Use the LinkClean share-sheet action

From the X app, hit Share → choose Clean URL. The cleaned tweet URL — just the /handle/status/<id> form, no t/s tail — is on your clipboard.

Or paste into the app to see what was stripped

Open LinkClean, paste the X share link. You'll see t and s called out, both stripped. The tweet ID and handle are preserved (they're part of the path, not the query string).

Confirm the tweet still loads

Open the cleaned URL in a private tab. Same tweet, same thread, no share token tying the view back to you.

X also occasionally adds &cn= and &refsrc= on outbound clicks — both go through the same default-on stripping path. The cleaned URL is the canonical tweet permalink, identical to what you'd get by typing the URL yourself.

Skip the steps — LinkClean does it.

LinkClean strips tracking parameters from any link in one tap, from any app's share sheet. No account, on-device.