Here is the honest answer to how to pin someone else’s tweet: you cannot natively pin another user’s post to your own X profile. Pinning is limited to your own posts. What you can do instead is quote their post and pin your quote, save it with bookmarks, or pin it inside a Community you manage. This guide covers those workarounds, then shows exactly how to pin your own post. X changes often, so check the current menu if a step looks different.
Why you cannot pin someone else’s post directly
The pin to profile feature is designed to feature your own content at the top of your profile, so X only allows it on posts you have written. There is no button to pin another account’s post to your profile, and that is by design rather than a bug. It keeps your profile as a space you control and prevents you from presenting someone else’s post as your own pinned highlight.
So if you are hunting for a hidden setting, there is not one. The good news is that a few simple workarounds get you most of the way there, depending on what you actually want to achieve.
The workarounds that actually work
Pick the workaround that matches your goal.
- Quote the post, then pin your quote: tap the repost icon, choose Quote, add a short comment, and publish. Because the quote is now your own post, you can pin it to your profile. This is the closest thing to pinning someone else’s post, since their content shows inside your pinned quote.
Two things to know before you rely on it. Your pinned quote depends on their post continuing to exist: if the author deletes it, protects their account or blocks you, the embedded post disappears and your pin becomes an empty comment sitting at the top of your profile. And quoting notifies them, so if you are quoting someone critically, they will see it.
- Bookmark it for yourself: if you just want to save a post to find later, tap the bookmark icon. Bookmarks are private and do not appear on your profile, which is ideal for keeping a reference without featuring it publicly.
- Repost to your followers: a plain repost shares the post with your followers in their timeline, but it does not pin anything to your profile. Use this when you want reach rather than a permanent spot at the top of your page.
For anyone building a personal brand across platforms, pairing these habits with a strong online presence helps, as our guide to getting found through Google search explains.
The screenshot route, and doing it without being rude
The other workaround people reach for is screenshotting the post, publishing the image as their own, and pinning that. It works, and it has trade offs worth knowing before you use it.
What it buys you is permanence. Unlike a quote, the image does not vanish if the author deletes the post, protects their account or blocks you. Your pin keeps working.
That is the whole reason people use it, and for archiving something genuinely worth keeping it is a reasonable choice.
What it costs is everything a link does. Nobody can click through to the original, reply to it, or see what the author said afterwards.
The author is not notified, gets no traffic and no credit unless you supply it, and the post is stranded from its own conversation, which is often where the useful part was.
So credit properly. Put the author’s handle in your own text, not just inside the image, so it is readable, searchable and clickable.
Include a link to the original post in the same message. That takes ten seconds and turns a screenshot from something taken into something shared.
And think about whether you should at all. Screenshotting someone’s words to hold them up for criticism, on your own profile, permanently, is a different act from quoting them where they can reply.
It also removes their ability to delete something they thought better of. That is worth a moment’s thought before you pin it above everything else you have written.
Where it is clearly fine: a testimonial about you, a post you have permission to feature, a public announcement you are archiving, or your own past posts from another account.
How to pin your own post on X
Pinning your own post takes only a few taps and keeps your best content at the top of your profile.
- Open the post you want to pin from your own profile or timeline.
- Tap the three dots menu in the top corner of that post.
- Select Pin to your profile from the list of options.
- Confirm if prompted, and the post now sits at the top of your profile with a pinned label.
To change it later, open your current pinned post, tap the three dots, and choose Unpin, then pin a different one. You can have only one pinned post at a time, so it always shows your single most important message.
If one slot is not enough, X Premium adds a second option most people miss.
Highlights: the multi post option on X Premium
Pinning gives you one slot. Highlights, available to X Premium subscribers, gives you a whole tab.
It works from the same menu: open one of your own posts, tap the three dots, and choose Add or remove from Highlights. The Highlights tab then appears on your profile below your bio and above your normal timeline, and visitors can flick through those posts without scrolling your history.
There is no hard cap on how many you add, though somewhere between five and ten keeps it feeling curated rather than a dump of everything you liked about yourself.
The limitation is the same one that runs through this whole page: Highlights only works on your posts. It solves the “I want to feature several things” problem, not the “I want to feature someone else’s post” one. For that, the quote and pin route above is still the only way to get another person’s content onto your own profile.
Pinning in Communities and conversations
Beyond your profile, X allows pinning in a couple of other places. If you run or moderate a Community, you can pin a post to the top of that Community so members see it first, which does work on posts from other members. Open the post within the Community, tap the three dots, and look for the pin option, which appears only if you have the right permissions.
You can also pin a post within a direct message conversation to keep an important link or detail handy for both people. These are separate from profile pinning, but they cover the common reasons people want to feature someone else’s post. Managing all of this is easier with the right social and productivity tools.
Summary
You cannot pin someone else’s tweet to your profile on X, but you can quote it and pin your quote, bookmark it privately, or pin it inside a Community you manage. Pinning your own post is simple through the three dots menu. Since X updates its features regularly, double check the current options if anything looks different. For more platform tips, browse our everyday tech tricks.
Frequently asked questions
Can you pin a retweet?
You cannot pin a plain repost to your profile, since it is not your own post. However, if you quote the post and add a comment, the quote becomes your own post and can be pinned. So the workaround is to quote rather than simply repost when you want it pinned.
How many posts can you pin on X?
You can pin only one post to your profile at a time, and pinning a new one replaces the previous pin. If you want to feature several posts, X Premium adds a Highlights tab that holds multiple posts and appears below your bio. Both pinning and Highlights work only on your own posts.
Why can I not pin a post?
The most common reason is that the post belongs to someone else, since you can only pin your own posts to your profile. Other causes include using an outdated app version or a temporary glitch. Make sure it is your post, update the app, and try the three dots menu again.
Do pinned posts get more views?
Yes, a pinned post usually gets more views over time because it sits at the top of your profile, so every visitor sees it first. It is a good place for your best content, an introduction, or a current offer, since it keeps working long after it would have scrolled away.
Can I feature more than one post on my X profile?
Yes, with X Premium. Pinning is limited to one post, but Premium adds a Highlights tab that holds multiple posts and sits below your bio on your profile. Add a post to it from the same three dots menu. Like pinning, it only works on your own posts, so it does not help with featuring someone else’s.
What happens to my pinned quote if the original post is deleted?
The embedded post vanishes and your pin is left as your comment with nothing attached. The same happens if the author makes their account private or blocks you. If the quote is important to you, take a screenshot as a backup, and keep in mind that quoting someone always notifies them.
Should I screenshot someone else post and pin that?
It works and it is the only workaround that survives the original being deleted, which is why people use it. The cost is that nobody can click through, reply, or see the wider conversation, and the author gets no notification, no traffic and no credit unless you supply it. If you do it, put their handle in your own text rather than only in the image and link the original. It is clearly fine for a testimonial, something you have permission to feature or a public announcement you are archiving, and worth thinking twice about when you are holding up someone words for criticism, since a screenshot also removes their ability to delete a post they thought better of.