Paste a t.co link above to see where it ends up, without clicking it.
X, formerly Twitter, passes links posted on it through its own t.co address. The post may show a neat web address, but clicking it goes to t.co first, which records the click and then sends you on. When a link is copied out of X, you often get only the t.co version, which tells you nothing about where it leads.
Link Unmasker follows the t.co link and every step after it. That matters, because t.co often hands you on to another short link, a marketing tracker or an affiliate network before you reach the page. You'll see each stop, who runs it and what tracking codes it adds.
The final address comes with a clean copy, without its tracking codes, ready to open or share directly.
The link is followed from our server, so neither X nor any site after it sees your visit.
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What this can't do
- It can't tell you a site is safe. It shows where a link goes, not whether the page there is honest. Check the final address yourself, letter by letter.
- Some redirects need a full browser. Pages that run a lot of code before moving you on, or that ask you to click a button, stop the trail there. We show the page we reached.
- Some sites block automated visits. They may show a "checking your browser" page or an error instead of what you'd see.
- Links that need you to be logged in end at a sign-in page here, because we never use your accounts.
- It doesn't see tracking inside the final page, such as analytics scripts and ad pixels. Only the redirects, address codes and cookies on the way.