When posting Twitter links, you can safely omit the ?s19, etc... [View all]

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Just a public service announcement for those who may not know. Using Joe's currently-pinned tweet as an example, if I copy the address, it looks (space is intentional so it shows just the address) like this;

https:// twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1266949697874415618?s=20


If you paste that, it shows the Tweet, but the DU ignores everything after the ? mark, and prints it as text undedrneath.

Link to tweet

?s=20

but if you remove that part before you post, it comes out nice and clean;

Link to tweet

I believe the number indicates simply the source, 19 for mobile app, 20 for Windows or other desktop OS, but not 100% sure. In general, it is safe to strip anything after a ? mark in a URL when posting it, it is just a query string.