How to schedule tweets (posts on X), on the web and from other apps

X schedules posts from the x.com composer on a computer, and threads in X Pro on paid plans. The steps, what X won't schedule, and what apps pay to post.

How to schedule a post on x.com

1. 1On a computer, open x.com and click Post or start typing in the box at the top of your timeline.
2. 2Write the post and add any photos or video.
3. 3Click the calendar icon below the text.
4. 4Set the date and time, and click Confirm.
5. 5Click Schedule.

X's help covers this in a single paragraph of its How to post page. It says scheduled posts and drafts are kept under Unsent posts in the compose box, but it doesn't say how far ahead you can schedule, which accounts can, or how to change a scheduled post. In practice, open it from Unsent posts to edit or delete it.

Can you schedule tweets on your phone?

Not that X documents. Scheduling appears only under the desktop tab of X's posting help, and its Android guide covers drafts but not scheduling. On a phone, the workaround is the desktop site in a browser, or a scheduling app.

X Pro: threads and several accounts

X Pro, the dashboard that used to be TweetDeck, has a Schedule post button and a Scheduled column where you can see and edit what's queued, across several accounts. Its newer composer builds threads with photos, video, GIFs and polls, and X's help says that includes scheduled posts. It needs a paid plan: X's Premium page lists X Pro under its top tier, and X now sells Premium as part of a bundle it calls The X Subscription. X Pro doesn't work on phones or in browser windows narrower than 500 pixels.

The Ads composer and Media Studio

• Ads composer: at ads.x.com, open Composer, click the arrow next to Post, pick a date and time, and click Schedule. Untick Promoted-only to make it an ordinary post; only the ads account owner can. Posts that limit who can reply can't be scheduled here.
• Media Studio: for verified subscribers. It holds one scheduled post at a time per account, up to 280 characters, with no threads, and a scheduled post there can't be edited, only deleted.

What X won't schedule

• Long posts. Premium accounts can write up to 25,000 characters, but X's help says longer posts can't be scheduled yet.
• Threads in the x.com composer or Media Studio. X documents threads only in X Pro.
• Posts with reply limits in the Ads composer.
• Anything from the phone apps, as above.

How scheduling apps post to X

X's API has no field for a future time, so a scheduling app keeps the post and sends it when it's due. Since February 2026 the API is pay-per-use: X charges apps $0.015 for each post and, since 20 April 2026, $0.20 for a post containing a link. That is why many schedulers now charge extra for X or cap it. Since February, X also limits API replies to accounts the original author mentioned or quoted, but replies to your own post still go through: PostDaily's threads, published as a chain of replies, have kept publishing.

Each post shows the app it was sent from. X hasn't said whether that, or scheduling, affects how a post is ranked. Do scheduled posts get less views? collects what each network has said.

Scheduling X posts with PostDaily

X is on PostDaily's paid plans, each with a monthly X budget because X charges per post. A month's budget covers this many plain posts: 40 on Starter, 170 on Pro and 710 on Agency. A post with a link costs X about 13 times as much, so in link posts it covers 10 on Starter, 45 on Pro and 190 on Agency. Each post in a thread counts on its own.

Write a thread of up to 25 posts, each with its own photos or video, add a poll of 2 to 4 choices, and choose who can reply. The counter weighs links, emoji and Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters the way X does, and every post is held to 280: long posts aren't supported. Posts can be scheduled up to 12 months ahead. The rest is on the X scheduler and X's limits.

X scheduling questions

Last checked Nov 12, 2026 against help.x.com and X's API documentation.