How To: A Beginners Guide to Writing and Scheduling Social

Media Posts on Tweet Deck

In today’s society, there is not a more important resource than social media

when it comes to reaching the masses. Whether it be a call-to-action or simply

an FYI, Twitter is one of the largest platforms to post on.

Writing social media posts can be daunting, but as long as you follow this simple

formula, it’s a piece of cake:

[Relevance to that person/group + the thing/event you are promoting + link/where to find more]

Obviously, this formula is mainly relevant to posts that are either a call to action

or as a means of informing people of an event/resource, but the essence is this:

keep it simple, keep it relevant. With Twitters 140-character limit, it can make

posting a little more challenging.

Sometimes you may want to spend a little more time on a post, or perhaps you

are considering posting multiple times in a short space of time. Whilst it’s

important to make sure you aren’t posting too much, an excellent resource for

this is Post Scheduling Software. An excellent website for Twitter scheduling is

called Tweet Deck.

1) Open up the website (tweetdeck.twitter.com). Click on the circled ‘Log In’ button below.

2) Log in using your Twitter account details (as if you were logging in to twitter).

3) This is the main Dashboard. It looks a but hectic, but luckily we can ignore most of this. All

we leed to focus on is the toolbar on the left.

4) To schedule your first tweet, click on the ‘new tweet’ button circled below.

5) Write your tweet in the white box below. You can copy and paste emojis from an online

emoji keyoard. You can also add photos or videos (under 2:20) using the ‘add images or

video’ button (circled).

6) Once you have written your tweet, and added any emojis/videos/photos that you want, you

can move on to scheduling. This makes sure that your tweet is sent out on the day you want,

at the time you want.

Use the calendar circled below to select the day you want, then type in the time you want

into the boxes above (circled). Make sure you have selected the am/pm button for the time

you want to schedule the post for!

7) Once you have checked over your tweet and the day/time, you are ready to schedule it!

Click the ‘tweet at’ button (circled), and it’ll pop up on the ‘Scheduled’ column on your

dashboard (arrowed).

8) If you want to delete a tweet, you can do so by scrolling down on the ‘Scheduled’ column

until you reach the tweet you wish to delete, then press the ‘delete’ button (circled).

You cannot recover a deleted tweet, and you cannot reschedule a tweet that is already

scheduled – so make sure you copy-and-paste the original tweet you would like to change

into the ‘new tweet’ box before deleting

And you’re done! You can now schedule as many posts as you wish! This is a particularly useful skill if

you want to have tweets sorted in asvance – for example, for a Bank Holiday. Tweet Deck will still put

out your tweets even if it isn’t running, so you can close your browser/tab if you’re finished.