X added a native way to reshare a photo that names the original author and, per X, lets both the sharer and the original creator earn from the Original Content Rewards program.
2026-10-28 · by Moe Ameen
In late October 2026, X turned on a native photo-resharing flow built to keep attribution on the person who made the image. Instead of downloading a photo and re-uploading it as your own, you long-press the image and choose a "Post photo" option; the reshared post names the original author and links back to their profile. Reporting on the launch places it around October 27, 2026.
Per the feature's own announcement, the original author is credited and both accounts earn from X's Original Content Rewards program — the sharer and the creator each benefit rather than the credit (and the payout) going only to whoever posted the copy. X has not detailed how the earnings split works or confirmed whether engagement on the reshared image itself counts toward both accounts' impression totals.
X has not published the full mechanics. There is no stated payout rate, no confirmed country list, and no detail on exactly which apps or clients expose the long-press "Post photo" option, nor a clear statement of whether both accounts must already be enrolled in Original Content Rewards for the shared earnings to apply. Treat the specifics as a launch snapshot that can change.
The move continues a year of X tightening attribution. In May 2026, then head of product Nikita Bier said X had begun identifying large accounts that programmatically repost smaller creators' work to game the revenue share, and was reallocating those impressions to the original creator; X pointed users to its Quote and Share Video features as the attribution-preserving ways to build on someone else's post. Original Content Rewards itself launched in September 2026, replacing the old engagement-based Creator Revenue Sharing and paying for genuinely original work by qualified impressions. Credited photo resharing is the same direction applied to images: make the original author the one who benefits when a photo spreads.
This feature rewards one specific position: being the original author whose images get reshared with your name attached. The way to win it is to be the account consistently publishing original, on-brand visuals on X in the first place — the source everyone else credits — not the one scrambling to repost. That is squarely a production problem, and it is what [Kompozy](/) is built to solve on the image side.
Point Kompozy at a single source — a talk, a product, a hot take — and, governed by your [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief), it generates a run of original visuals you own: scene Photo Posts and face-locked Persona Photos, server-side Quote Graphics, infographic posters, and multi-slide Carousel Posts rendered pixel-exact through [HyperFrames](/glossary/hyperframes). Each image is net-new and genuinely yours — the kind X's Original Content Rewards is designed to pay for — not a lifted or minor-edit repost that the program disqualifies. You review each behind a per-post gate, then let [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot) publish and schedule them across the eight social platforms plus blog and email, so the originals land on your own X handle — and everywhere else — at the same time. When someone reshares one with the new credit flow, you are the named author.
You long-press a photo and choose a "Post photo" option instead of downloading and re-uploading it. The reshared post names the original author and links to their profile, so credit stays with the person who made the image. The flow turned on in late October 2026, reported around October 27.
Per X's announcement of the feature, both the account that reshares and the original creator earn from the Original Content Rewards program. X has not published a payout rate, the earnings split, or how impressions are counted between the two accounts, so treat the specifics as a launch snapshot.
No. It adds a credited way to reshare a photo specifically. For adding commentary, X still points to its Quote and Share Video features, which keep attribution to the source post. Credited photo resharing is the image-first complement to those tools.
Earnings flow through Original Content Rewards, which requires an active X Premium subscription plus high verified-follower and verified-impression thresholds. Most small accounts will get the attribution and profile link without a payout until they clear that gate; the credit is the near-term benefit.