How to Shorten YouTube Links for Twitter. Viral videos are a great way to market your business, and YouTube is the most widely used video-sharing service on the Web. If you have a large Twitter ...

While YouTube has an annotation feature that allows you to add links to other videos on the site, it is not possible to embed external links.

Once the link has been copied to your clipboard, you will be able to paste it in a text message or email, open the video in your web browser, and/or share it on social networks. In your application ...

If you want to embed a YouTube video in email, you can simply copy and paste the link — a video preview should appear for the recipient.

Find a YouTube link in a story you’re reading and forgo opening in Internet Explorer and instead let it open in Metrotube.