Twitter has today started rolling out a tweet-scheduling feature to its web app. The feature makes it possible for users to schedule tweets without having to use third party services, or the Twitter-owned, but not very popular tool Tweetdeck.
If you want to schedule tweets, you can simply start composing a new tweet on the Twitter web app. At the bottom, you should see a calendar icon with a clock face in it. Clicking on it will let you select the date and time for posting your tweet.
Apart from scheduling tweets, Twitter is also adding a new ‘drafts’ feature to Twitter web. With this, users can choose to save their unsent tweets as drafts and finish them later. This is a great way to ensure you don’t lose a thought if it comes at a time when you’re not ready to tweet it out. I don’t have access to the feature on the web app yet, so this might be a limited or phased roll out. However, according to a tweet by Twitter, the feature works pretty much how you expect. You can click on the ‘cross’ icon while composing a tweet and you will get the option to discard it or save it as a draft.
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
