# Twitter shared URL has a query string

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-shared-url-has-a-query-string/47446>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 18, 2016, 6:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-shared-url-has-a-query-string/47446 "2016-07-18T06:10:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Idan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/idan/32/198212_2.png) [@Idan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Idan)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 6:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twitter-shared-url-has-a-query-string/47446/1 "2016-07-18T06:10:38Z")

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When I share a post via twitter it ads a query string e.g. ?u=[theusername] to the URL that is being shared. Is there a way to remove it?

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