Twitter finally lets you schedule tweets

Scheduling tweets was once the exclusive domain of third-party apps and services.

What you need to know

• Twitter now lets you schedule tweets on the web.
• The service started testing out scheduling for a select group of users earlier this year.
• Twitter’s web-app has also been updated to include saving of drafted tweets and draft syncing to other instances of the web-app.

Twitter has officially announced and rolled out tweet scheduling for its web-app. Tweet scheduling is a feature that does exactly what it purports to do — it allows users to table their tweets to be sent at a specified time after being drafted and is effectively the bread and butter of many social media managers.

Before this announcement, users typically had to make use of third-party like Buffer, Tweetdeck, or Hootsuite to create scheduled tweets. Twitter making this feature native means it’s more secure and accessible to native, less-savvy end-users. It’s likely such tools will still remain necessary on mobile or for more complicated social media operations, however.

Not quite ready to send that Tweet? Now on https://t.co/fuPJa36kt0 you can save it as a draft or schedule it to send at a specific time –– all from the Tweet composer! pic.twitter.com/d89ESgVZal

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 28, 2020

Twitter will also let you save tweets as drafts if you aren’t ready to commit yet. Like with scheduling, this is also limited to the web-apps -— there’s no cross sync to mobile apps yet.

Both features should be available immediately.

Twitter: Everything you need to know