Understanding Shares and Reposts on Whistlr
Sharing someone else's post with your own audience is one of the easiest ways to spread great content across Whistlr. Reposting lets you put another creator's post in front of your followers while keeping clear credit on where it came from. This article explains how reposting works, how attribution is handled, how to remove a repost, and how to manage whether your own posts can be reshared by others.
Resharing a Post
To reshare a post you find in Chattr, Discover, or Flow, tap the repost icon below the post — it looks like two arrows forming a loop. You'll be given the option to repost instantly, which shares the original post as-is to your own audience, or to add your own caption or reaction before sharing it onward. Once shared, the repost appears in your followers' feeds along with a clear indicator that it originated from another account.
Attribution is built into every repost. The original creator's username and profile picture are always displayed on the reposted content, so anyone who sees it in your feed can tap through to the original post and the original creator's profile. This keeps credit with the person who made the content in the first place, even as it travels further through the app. Reposting does not transfer ownership of the content or move it off the original creator's profile — it simply gives it additional visibility through your network.
How Reposts Appear to Others
When someone in your In Circle reposts a piece of content, it shows up in feeds labeled as a repost, distinct from that person's own original posts. This distinction helps people understand what they're looking at — a friend's own thoughts versus a friend sharing something they found interesting. Reposts can be liked, commented on, and reshared again, and engagement on a repost is generally tracked separately from engagement on the original post.
Sharing should make great content travel further while keeping the spotlight on whoever actually created it.
- Removing your own repost: Open the repost from your profile or feed, tap the three-dot menu, and select Remove Repost. This removes it from your profile and your followers' feeds without affecting the original post in any way.
- Repost with caption: Add your own short comment above the original post when sharing, useful for explaining why you found something worth passing along.
- Quick repost: Share the original post instantly with no added text, ideal for fast sharing of content you want to amplify as-is.
- Viewing who reposted your content: Tap the repost count on your own post to see a list of accounts that have shared it with their audience.
Controlling Whether Your Posts Can Be Reshared
If you'd rather keep your posts from being reposted by others, go to Settings > Privacy > Sharing and turn off Allow Reposts. With this setting off, the repost icon will be unavailable to other users viewing your posts, although people can still share a link to your post through outside messaging apps. You can adjust this setting at any time, and it applies to posts going forward — it does not retroactively remove reposts that already happened before you changed it.
Whether you're the one sharing or the one being shared, reposting is designed to be transparent on both ends. Original creators keep visible credit and control over future resharing, while the people doing the sharing get a simple way to add their voice to content they care about. If you're also curious about who can interact with a post once it's shared, see our article on controlling who can comment on your posts.