Every tap is tagged with the channel it came from. Dropplink checks these signals in order and uses the first one it finds:

#	Signal	Example
1	`?s=` on the link	`go.acme.com/diwali?s=email`
2	`?utm_source=` on the link	`go.acme.com/diwali?utm_source=newsletter`
3	The link's channel, set when you create it	A link created with channel Email
4	The in-app browser the tap happened in	Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, X, Telegram, Discord, Threads
5	The site the visitor came from	youtube.com, t.co, wa.me, mail.google.com, google.com…
—	None of the above	`direct`

Leave a link's channel on Detect automatically when you'll share the same link in several places. Set it when a link is only for one channel, like an email campaign, where the in-app browser can't tell.

Channel names#

instagram, youtube, whatsapp, facebook, x, linkedin, telegram, snapchat, tiktok, threads, pinterest, reddit, discord, google, bing, email, sms, dropp, direct and other.

?s= and ?utm_source= also accept these short names:

Short name	Channel
`ig`, `insta`	instagram
`yt`	youtube
`fb`, `meta`	facebook
`tw`, `twitter`	x
`li`	linkedin
`wa`	whatsapp
`tg`	telegram
`sc`, `snap`	snapchat
`tt`	tiktok
`th`	threads
`pin`	pinterest
`rd`	reddit
`dc`	discord
`em`, `mail`, `newsletter`	email
`ondropp`	dropp

Any other value is recorded as other.

Channels and sources

Channel names#