How to schedule X posts and tweets (and what to use without X Pro)

Yes, in three ways:

• X Pro. X's Help Center documents post scheduling in X Pro (formerly TweetDeck), including for several accounts. X Pro is a Premium+ feature.
• A scheduling tool. Tools such as UniPost connect to your X account and publish at the time you pick, from the same place as your other networks.
• An AI agent. Claude, ChatGPT, and other agents can schedule X posts once they're connected to an MCP server that can publish. With UniPost, every post your agent schedules stays pending until it's approved.

X's How to Post page for x.com and the X apps doesn't describe a scheduling option. If your composer shows one, X's help pages don't cover it yet.

If you manage several X accounts in X Pro, you can schedule posts for each of them. To add one, click your profile photo, then Manage accounts and Add an existing account.

In a shared or work setup, everyone with access to your X Pro can see the scheduled posts for every connected account. To let teammates schedule without sharing a password, X's Delegate feature lets owners, admins, and contributors schedule posts for an account. You turn Delegate on and invite people on x.com.

Add a Scheduled column in X Pro. It lists your scheduled posts, and you can view and edit them there.

To add a column, click the plus icon in the navigation bar and choose Add column, or press A.

• Work without Premium+. X's Premium page lists X Pro access under Premium+ only.
• Schedule Direct Messages or longer posts on the web. X Pro doesn't schedule Direct Messages, and X says you can't schedule a longer post on the web.

X scheduling not working?

Check these first:

• You're not in X Pro. X's Help Center documents scheduling only in X Pro.
• Your plan doesn't include X Pro. X lists it as a Premium+ feature. X Premium is now part of The X Subscription, so check which plan you're on.
• The post is a longer post or a DM. Neither can be scheduled (see above).
• The wrong account is selected. With several accounts in X Pro, confirm the one you're posting from before you schedule.

UniPost gives you 2 connected accounts free, with no credit card. An X account is one account, so you can schedule to X and one more account, such as a LinkedIn profile, without paying. To schedule from the dashboard:

1. Create a free UniPost account and connect your X account. X's own sign-in page asks you to allow posting; UniPost never sees your password.
2. Choose Create post, select your X account, and write the post. You can add up to 4 images, or one video.
3. Pick a time at least 15 minutes from now and choose Schedule post, or choose Post now.

X charges for each post, so X posts use credits. A plain post uses 1 and a post with a link uses 13. Free accounts get 10 credits a month, and each X account can post up to 10 times an hour and 25 times a day.

On free accounts, one post with a link (13 credits) is more than the monthly allowance (10), so plan on plain posts, or pay for accounts to post links.

After the free accounts: The first 2 are free, then $3, $1, and $0.50 each as you add more. Paying for accounts raises the X allowance to 50 credits for each of your first 10 X accounts, then 20 each. See /pricing.

An agent can't post to X on its own. Connect it to an MCP server that can publish, and it can write the post and schedule it too. UniPost is one such server.

With UniPost:

1. Connect your X account to UniPost, then add UniPost to your agent: /agents/claude, /agents/chatgpt, /agents/grok-bot, /agents/cursor.
2. Ask: "Write a short X post about our launch for tomorrow at 10 a.m. Check my X credits first, and show me the post before you schedule it."
3. The agent checks your credits with get_x_allowance and schedules the post, up to a year ahead. Every post your agent schedules stays pending until it's approved. You can approve it in three ways: the approval link, the dashboard, or your agent.
4. Once approved, the post goes out at the time you set, or right away if that time has passed. Its X credits are counted when it publishes.

Your agent can approve a post it scheduled for you, so tell it to show you the full text, images, and time first. UniPost's server instructions tell agents never to approve a post you haven't seen and agreed to. If a teammate's agent created the post, your agent can't approve it; it has to be approved through the link. When your agent attaches media, it passes public https links: JPEG, PNG, GIF, or WebP images, or MP4, MOV, or WebM video. How approval works: /docs/publishing/schedule-and-approve. X MCP server: /mcp/x. Every network: /social-media-mcp-server.

Check four things before you pick one:

1. Does it post to X at all? Not every scheduler does. Later's networks: No X or Bluesky.
2. What the free plan covers. Publer's free plan: Yes: 3 accounts (not X), 10 scheduled posts each, 1 user. Buffer's free plan: Yes: 3 channels, 10 scheduled posts each, 1 user. UniPost: 2 free accounts, no credit card.
3. Approvals. If an agent or a teammate drafts the posts, check whether anything holds a post until someone approves it. With UniPost: Every post your agent schedules stays pending until it's approved. Buffer: Approval workflows on the Team plan. Agent posts go to your Buffer queue, and its create_post tool can also publish immediately.
4. Analytics. UniPost doesn't show X analytics, because X doesn't report post views, likes, replies, or reposts to it. If you need numbers for each post, check the tool's X page before you sign up.

To compare UniPost with other schedulers: /vs/buffer, /vs/hootsuite, and /vs/later.

Sources for X facts (fetched Oct 21, 2026): https://help.x.com/en/using-x/advanced-xpro-features, https://help.x.com/en/using-x/how-to-use-x-pro, https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium, https://help.x.com/en/using-x/types-of-posts, https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-use-the-delegate-feature, https://help.x.com/en/using-x/how-to-post. Competitor facts are from UniPost's comparison pages, checked October 20, 2026.