How to Send Delayed Tweets via TweetDeck

TweetDeck is also available for devices such as Android, iPad and iPhone.

Delaying or scheduling tweets is a process provided by several third-party Twitter clients for posting to your account at specified times and dates, when you might not be available to do it manually. TweetDeck provides a message scheduling feature, along with other functions that aren't available directly from the Twitter website. These features include posting messages to multiple accounts, access to additional social networking systems and saving search terms.

Instructions

1. Launch TweetDeck on your computer. If you are not already signed into your Twitter account within TweetDeck, open the Settings page, select "Twitter" and enter your account's username and password. Click the "Sign In" button to continue.

2. Type your Twitter post into the "What's happening?" text box at the top of the TweetDeck window.

3. Click a social network button in the "From" list to select the account that the message will be posted to. The button will turn light blue to signify which social networking account you have selected.

4. Click the Timer button next to the "Send" button directly beneath the message box, which bears an image of a stopwatch.

5. Enter the date and time that you want to post the message to Twitter, then click the "Set time" button.

Tips & Warnings

• You can view your list of scheduled messages in TweetDeck by clicking the + button and selecting "Scheduled updates."

• You can schedule your messages to be posted to multiple social networks by selecting several of them from the "From" list.

References

• TweetDeck; "How to Schedule an Update?"; May 2010

Resources

• Twitter
• TweetDeck