X

X is not available on PostDelegate yet. It is listed under Coming soon. This page explains how X will work once it opens, so you can prepare.

X charges for its API, so there will be two ways to connect an X account.

Through PostDelegate

You sign in to X and PostDelegate posts through its own X app. Each paid plan includes a number of X posts a month, counted separately from your other networks:

• Every post of a thread counts as one X post.
• A post counts when it is published. Deleting or moving it afterwards does not give it back.
• A draft does not count. Scheduled posts are checked against the plan month they publish in.
• The count starts again at the start of each plan month.
• Repeating and evergreen posts need your own X API key.

When the month’s X posts are used up, scheduling another X post shows a message, and a post that reaches its publish time after that fails with the same message instead of going out. Upgrade your plan, or connect the account with your own X API key.

Using your own X API key

You connect with the keys of your own X developer app. PostDelegate does not cap these X posts, and X bills your developer account for the API use.

1. Sign in at developer.x.com and create a Project with an App in it.
2. In the App’s User authentication settings, set App permissions to Read and write.
3. Under Keys and tokens, copy the API Key and API Key Secret, then generate the Access Token and Access Token Secret. Generate the token after setting Read and write. If you change the permissions later, generate it again.
4. In PostDelegate choose Add Channel, then X (Own API key), and paste the four values.

PostDelegate checks the keys with X before it saves the channel. The keys are stored encrypted. The access token you generate in the developer portal belongs to the X account that owns the app, so that is the account the channel posts as.

If the connection fails you will see one of these messages:

• X did not accept these keys. A value is incomplete, or the values come from different apps.
• These keys can only read. Set App permissions to Read and write, then generate a new Access Token and Secret.
• X refused these keys. The app is not inside a Project, or your developer account has no API access.

To replace the keys later, use Update Credentials in the channel’s menu.

An account is connected one way at a time. To move an account from one way to the other, delete its channel first, then connect it again. Posts already published still count toward that plan month.