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Automate X

Keep an X account posting and listening without checking it all day. Tweets go out from a schedule, a feed or a link you send, long text becomes a thread, and mentions or brand keywords get picked up and sent to Slack or drafted into replies. Ask your AI assistant for it in plain words, look over the steps it suggests, and your account keeps going after that.

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Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 4 hours between 8am and 8pm, write a tweet in my style about indie game development or pixel art, avoid repeating my recent tweets, and post it to X.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in X

Tweets and threads that post on time, mentions and brand chatter you hear about quickly, and reply drafts you approve before they go out. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Every few hours / dailyAI

Post a fresh tweet every few hours

Your account posts new tweets in your style on your topics, without repeating itself.

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HourlyAI

Tweet new articles from a news feed

New items from the feeds you follow are tweeted with a short line and link, each only once.

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The moment it happens

Post a tweet by sending text to a link

Send text and an optional image from any tool and it's posted on X, with the tweet URL sent back.

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Every 15 minutes

Send new X mentions to Slack

Every @mention of your account shows up in Slack within 15 minutes.

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Every few hoursAI

Find questions on X and reply helpfully

Real questions about your topic get found and answered, a few at a time.

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WeeklyAI

Get a weekly report on what people say on X

Every Monday you see the main themes from the past week on your topic and five post ideas.

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The moment it happensAI

Turn long text into an X thread

Paste a long piece of writing and it goes out as a numbered thread.

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Every 15 minutes

Get Slack alerts when your brand is mentioned

Posts naming your brand or a competitor reach Slack within 15 minutes.

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Every 30 minutesAI

Approve replies to your mentions by email

Each new mention gets a drafted reply in your inbox, posted only when you click to approve.

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Every 30 minutesAI

Post a Spanish version of every tweet

Your Spanish-speaking followers get each tweet in their language as a reply.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with X, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any X automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what X should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every 30 minutes, search X for posts mentioning my product name and send me only the ones AI judges to be questions or complaints.

Every weekday, post the next row from my X Queue sheet in Google Sheets and mark it Posted.

When I add a row to my Launches sheet in Google Sheets, post a short version to X, a longer version to LinkedIn and a version with the image to my Facebook Page.

Works with

X with the apps you already use

Tweets tend to come from somewhere else, like a WordPress post, a content sheet or a LinkedIn idea, and alerts about what's said on X belong in your inbox or Telegram.

X works with hundreds of other apps

Name any of them when you ask your assistant, and your automation connects them. Over 248 apps are ready to go, and anything with an API works too.

  • Instagram
  • Reddit
  • YouTube
  • TikTok
  • Discord
  • Slack
  • Notion
  • Airtable
  • Buffer
  • Hootsuite
  • Ghost
  • beehiiv
  • GitHub
  • Canva
  • Perplexity
  • Pinterest

Beyond chat

Have X work when you're not in the chat

Connecting X to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect X

X connects through an app you create in the X Developer Console with OAuth 2.0. API usage is paid from the credits on your own developer account, not by ClickRuntime.

X

Social

  1. In the X Developer Console, create an app and buy credits.
  2. Under User authentication settings, choose OAuth 2.0 as a Web App (confidential) with the callback https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  3. Use the scopes tweet.read, tweet.write, users.read and offline.access, adding media.write for images.
  4. Enter the client ID and secret under Connections in the ClickRuntime dashboard. You can use an OAuth 1.0a consumer key and access token for your own account instead.

Good to know

X limits that affect automations

  • X charges your developer credits for each post created and each post read, and calls fail when the balance hits zero. Narrow searches keep read costs down.
  • Reads are capped at 2 million posts a month per account.
  • Access tokens last 2 hours. With the offline.access scope ClickRuntime refreshes them, so automations keep running.
  • Recent search only covers the last 7 days, and X restricts automated replies to people who didn't mention you, so reply automations should stay low-volume or ask for approval.

FAQ

Questions about automating X

Who pays for X API usage?
You do, from the credits on your own X developer account, which is charged per post and per read. ClickRuntime doesn't add to that. A few posts a day cost little, while wide keyword searches read more posts and cost more.
Can it reply to people automatically?
It can, but X restricts automated replies to people who didn't mention you. The safer setups email you each draft and post it only after you approve.
How quickly will I see mentions?
The mention and keyword automations check every 15 minutes and only fetch posts newer than the last one they saw.
Is AI needed?
Not for posting from a link, keyword alerts or mention forwarding. Writing tweets, splitting text into threads, translating and choosing replies use the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, with no AI key needed.
Can it post images?
Yes, with the `media.write` scope. Send an image URL along with the text and it's uploaded and attached to the tweet.
Is this a X connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with X data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change X while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each X event.

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