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Safe to post video thumbnail to Twitter from Youtube?

by redline99k
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Hey guys, I'm wondering if anybody can share some light on this. I've been posting popular Youtube links to Twitter without any pictures. I'm wondering if I would run into copywrite problems by posting a thumbnail from a video also with the Youtube link to increase engagement. I wasn't sure how that works since I would be uploading a thumbnail of the content to twitter each time. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Nequan
    I don't think people will care if you're promoting their videos using their thumbnails. Most of them wouldn't even notice anyway since thumbnails are automatically added when YouTube auto-posts videos to Twitter through linked profiles. Every time I upload a video to YouTube, I automatically share it on Twitter. The auto tweet has the thumbnail of the video along with any message I add to it the share.
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  • Profile picture of the author markeeter
    I don't think it should create any problems. You're not passing off videos as your own. The owners are getting free traffic so I think they will be happy. They won't mind it.
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  • Profile picture of the author redline99k
    Thanks for the replies. The tweet links point back to my site where the youtube video is embedded. I get hits to my site and they get hits to their youtube channel.

    My site is SLAPSHIFT.TV | fast cars, drift masters, rally racing, auto girls & extreme crashes and there's a twitter link at the top right if anyone wants to take a look on how it's currently running. I would just be adding images to the tweets reflecting the video.

    I havent seen alot of people post video links on twitter with pictures unless its there own material, so I wasn't sure if that was because of copywrite issues or because they just don't want to take the time to create the thumbnails.
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