Display requirements

Do:

• Display real, unmodified Tweets from real accounts.
• Follow Twitter’s Terms of Service, the Twitter Brand Assets and Guidelines, and (if applicable) the Developer Agreement and Developer Policy.
• Display the Twitter logo.
• Follow reply guidelines for displaying replies.

Don’t:

• Use Twitter content to promote any product or service (e.g., by displaying Twitter content in advertising or otherwise displaying Twitter content to imply endorsement of any product or service) without explicit permission from the user.
• Use Twitter content to imply sponsorship by, endorsement from, or a false association with Twitter.
• Include buttons or icons from other social platforms.
• Modify Tweet text.
• Use mock ups of Tweets that don’t exist on the platform.

Tweet author:

• The Tweet author’s profile picture, @username, and full name must always be displayed and link to the user’s Twitter profile.
• The Tweet author’s @username must always be displayed with the “@” symbol.
• The Tweet author’s avatar must be positioned to the left of the author’s name and @username—except for Tweets in languages that read right to left, in which case the author’s avatar must be positioned to the right of the author’s name and @username.

Tweet text:

• The Tweet text must be displayed on a line below the author’s name and @username, and may not be altered or modified.
• On touch devices, the white space around the Tweet text and Tweet author must link to the Tweet’s permalink.
• Tweet Entities within the Tweet text must be properly linked to their appropriate home on Twitter. For example:
  • User_mentions must link to the mentioned user’s profile.
  • Hashtags must link to a Twitter search with the hashtag as the query.
  • Links in Tweet text must be displayed using the display_url field in the URL entities API response, and link to the original t.co url field. See our t.co best practices article for additional details.

Timestamp:

• The Tweet timestamp must be displayed and link to the Tweet’s permalink.

Tweet actions:

• All Tweet Action icons (including reply, Retweet, and like) must always be visible for the user to interact with the Tweet. These actions must be implemented using Web Intents or with the authenticated Twitter API. (To support the implementation of Tweet Actions, we provide several image resources for developers to leverage.)
• No other social or third party actions may be attached to a Tweet. (e.g., subscribe, comment, like).
• If the Tweet being displayed is a Retweet, the name of the user who Retweeted it and the Retweet icon must be displayed above or under the Tweet text. e.g., “Retweeted by Jane Doe”. The name must link to the profile of the user who Retweeted it.

Branding:

• The official Twitter logo must always be reasonably visible and displayed on the individual Tweet or directly attached to the timeline (e.g., top of the timeline). See the Twitter Brand Assets and Guidelines for assets and additional detail.

Mobile deep linking:

• Deep links from native mobile apps must direct to the native Twitter application. If the native Twitter application is not installed on the device, the link must direct to twitter.com via a web browser.

Timelines:

• All timelines must allow users to view the details of an individual Tweet (e.g., by linking the Tweet timestamp or by linking the entire Tweet area).
• Tweets that are grouped together into a timeline must not be rendered with non-Twitter content (e.g., comments, updates from other networks). However, this does not apply to timelines where Tweets are explicitly selected by an end-user to appear next to non-Twitter content (e.g., manually authored live blogs, manually curated media collections, or commenting systems).

Do:

• Show the user’s full name, @username, Tweet text, and profile picture.
• Include the Twitter logo in close proximity to the Tweets for as long as they appear in your broadcast. Make sure that the Twitter logo is a reasonable size in relation to the content. A little taller than a single line of text is a good guideline.
• Use the full text of the Tweet.
• When displaying images, the Tweet text must also be included along with the user’s name, @username, and the Twitter logo.

Don’t:

• Display Twitter content in advertising or to imply endorsement of any product or service without explicit permission from the user.
• Delete, obscure, or alter the Tweet content or identification of the user (with the exception of removing hyperlinks).
• Exclude the timestamp.
• Do not use Twitter marks, in whole or in part, in the title of your production without first reviewing their use with Twitter by contacting us at trademarks@twitter.com.

Do:

• Show name, @username, unmodified Tweet text, profile picture (where possible), timestamp and the Twitter logo nearby.
• Display the associated Tweet and attribution with images or media.

Don’t:

• Modify the Tweet text with the exception of removing hyperlinks.
• Include buttons or icons from other social media platforms.

• Developer Agreement & Policy
• Developer Policy Support
• Branding
• Embedded Tweets

• Web Intents
• Spam and automation
• Contests on Twitter 

• Terms of Service
• The Twitter Rules
• Twitter Help Centre