
Let’s explore how to create and manage Share Links with those outside your account. Curious if a Share Link has been downloaded? Go to Sharing and select your Share link to view the Access Logs. Want to see a list of every Share Link being served by your site? Head over to Sharing and you will have full transparency.

Would you like only select users to be able to share files on selected folders? You can do that as well! Share Link permission is assigned at the folder level so only those you explicitly grant this access to will be able to create Share Links. Doing so will allow users to replace the auto-assigned ID with a friendly name, however note that such friendly name can also pose a security risk, such names can potentially be guessed in a similar way as commonly used passwords. Want to allow users to assign a friendly name to a shared link rather than a unique system generated ID? You can allow this by enabling the setting Allow Share Links to use custom URLs.

Some users set this to the minimum of 1 day, while others opt for ultra long-term share access. Want to limit the amount of time that a Share Link is publicly available? No problem - the lifetime of each Share Link is completely customizable via the expiration option. This makes the share a much more powerful tool, and an effective alternative to sending files via email.Īdministrators have powerful controls over all Share Links in their account. If you add a file to a folder being shared, the new file is automatically added. If you make changes to a file, this change is automatically reflected in all Share Links that include that file. While other share systems are usually static snapshots of files at the point of the share creation, Share Links remain dynamic. If the URL of a site you manage has been flagged, please see this help page about flagged URLs for more information.The Share Link provides a virtual read-only, dynamic access point to select files and folders stored on your site. Users are warned with the error message below when clicking on potentially harmful URLs. A link converted by Twitter’s link service is checked against a list of potentially dangerous sites.

Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity.Our link service measures information such as how many times a link has been clicked, which is an important quality signal in determining how relevant and interesting each Tweet is when compared to similar Tweets.Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message.Why does Twitter have its own link shortener? Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL.

Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link.
