Although Elon Musk may not like us continuing to call X posts tweets, we find it easier to refer to them that way. On a social network that promised to roll out a multitude of interesting features —and did so, but behind a subscription— it’s striking that it still offers free tools like scheduling a tweet, a lesser-known option that, however, is only available through the desktop web version.
For those who publish a lot of content on the former little-bird social network, this feature will be extremely useful for tweeting automatically at the best moments, times, or according to scheduled events that require a supporting tweet.
Heres how you can schedule a tweet (or post) on Twitter (or X)
As we said before, you won’t find this feature in the smartphone app, so you’ll have to use the desktop web version.
Once you go to https://x.com or https://twitter.com and have logged in to your account, you simply need to follow these steps:
Go to the box where you write your post and compose what you want to schedule. You can attach images, video, and other multimedia as usual.
Instead of clicking Post, look for the calendar icon that appears in the lower area. Click it to open the date editor.
Select the date and time you want and press Confirm.
Twitter will return you to the main page and now, the Post button will have changed to Schedule. By pressing it, your tweet will be scheduled to be published automatically at the date and time you selected earlier.
Now, from the web you can also see all the tweets you have scheduled and even modify them before they are published. It’s an option that’s also quite hidden, so we’ll illustrate it below:
On Twitter’s website, go to Post to open the tweet composition box, and then click on Drafts.
Inside Drafts you’ll find two sections: Unsent posts (that is, the drafts you left for later) and Scheduled.
If you click the Edit button in the top right corner, you can delete scheduled tweets, and if you click on any of the tweets, you can edit their content and even reschedule them with another date and time.
Now then, according to our tests, we have determined that scheduled tweets containing videos and images have trouble posting if you delete or move the multimedia content from its original location. In other words: you must keep the original attached file until the tweet has been published. You cannot move it to another folder, rename it, or delete it.
It’s strange, but every time we’ve deleted the file before the scheduled tweet was published, it resulted in an error. So, consider that noted!
Despite the questionable decisions of Twitter’s new CEO, it seems the social network still has life left, as it continues to hold its own against direct competitors like Bluesky or Instagram’s Threads.
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