X, formerly Twitter, is a common place for copyrighted work to be reposted: videos, images, and paywalled content all circulate in posts and replies. The good news is that X runs a dedicated DMCA copyright form and is one of the faster platforms at acting on a valid notice.
Use X’s copyright form
Everything goes through one page: X’s DMCA copyright report form.
Open it and follow the prompts. The form is straightforward, and it walks you through the information a copyright complaint requires: a description of your original work, the exact links to the infringing posts, your contact details, and the good-faith and accuracy statements with your signature. If you want help with the wording of the work description and the ownership statement, our DMCA notice generator produces that language for you to drop into the form.
Be precise with the links. Point to the specific posts rather than a profile, so X can find and remove exactly what you mean.
X is fast, but confirm the outcome
X tends to act on valid copyright notices quickly, often within a day or two, by removing the post or withholding it. You will hear back from X about the result, and a reported post that comes down usually shows a notice that it was withheld in response to a copyright report.
Keep a record of what you sent and the links you reported, in case the same content reappears and you need to file again.
That is the whole process. X is one of the more responsive platforms for copyright, so a single, precise submission is usually enough. If your work is being shared on other platforms too, the approach is similar everywhere: identify the work, point to the exact links, and send it to the platform’s copyright channel. Our guides to Reddit, Telegram, and VK cover those, and the explainer on what the DMCA is covers why these notices work.