Every 30 minutes

Post a Spanish version of every tweet

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

Runs: Every 30 minutes
Apps: X
AI: Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access: tweet.read tweet.write users.read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: when I post on X, translate the tweet into Spanish and post the translation as a reply to it.

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

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

An account with followers in two languages faces an awkward choice. Post in English only, and the Spanish-speaking half of the audience scrolls past. Post both versions in a single tweet, and it is cramped and confusing. Doing the translation yourself each time takes effort and slows posting, so the second audience gets a trickle at best.

Every 30 minutes, your latest posts are collected. ClickRuntime's built-in AI translates each one into the target language, keeping the tone and any hashtags or handles intact, and the translation is posted as a reply or quote to the original, so both audiences stay in one place.

International brands, event organisers and creators who serve a bilingual community will find it most valuable. Each audience gets your news in the language they read, within half an hour of it going out.

What you get out of it

The second audience is actually served
Followers who prefer another language get your updates in it within half an hour, which treats them as a real audience instead of an afterthought. Audiences that feel ignored drift away, while those that get updates stay engaged.
No separate account to manage
Replying or quoting in the same account keeps your following together and avoids the work of running a second profile in another language. One account is easier to grow than two, and your following stays in one place.
Handles and hashtags stay intact
Mentions and tags are preserved in the translation, so credit and discoverability are not lost, and links continue to point to the right destination. Accurate tags keep partners credited and keep your posts discoverable in both languages.
New posts are covered quickly
Because it runs every 30 minutes, translations appear while the original is still near the top of followers' feeds, not days later when nobody is looking. Timing matters on X because most attention comes in the first hours after a post.
Consistent tone in both languages
The AI is told your tone, so a playful brand does not become stiff in translation, which is a common problem with literal word-for-word tools. Brand voice survives translation more often when the instructions mention it explicitly.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every 30 minutes, ClickRuntime checks your X account for tweets you have posted since the last check.
AI translates each new tweet into Spanish.
The translation is posted as a reply to your original tweet.

Before it runs live

Connect X

What you get

RunsEvery 30 minutes

Post a Spanish version of every tweettoday, 9:00Succeeded

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Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. 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.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other X steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

translate_and_repost.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, report_fetched, state, http, credentials, ai

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    auth = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("x", "main")}
    me = http.get("https://api.x.com/2/users/me", headers=auth).json()["data"]["id"]
    params = {"exclude": "replies,retweets", "max_results": 10}
    if state.get("since_id"):
        params["since_id"] = state.get("since_id")
    data = http.get(f"https://api.x.com/2/users/{me}/tweets", headers=auth, params=params).json()
    tweets = data.get("data", [])
    report_fetched(len(tweets))
    if not tweets:
        return {"summary": "No new posts"}
    for t in reversed(tweets):
        spanish = ai.generate(f"Translate this tweet into Spanish. Reply with the translation only.\n\n{t['text']}", max_output_tokens=150).text.strip()
        http.post("https://api.x.com/2/tweets", headers=auth, json={
            "text": spanish[:280], "reply": {"in_reply_to_tweet_id": t["id"]},
        }).raise_for_status()
    state.set("since_id", data["meta"]["newest_id"])
    return {"translated": len(tweets)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it translate replies and reposts too?

By default it looks at your own new original posts. Replies and reposts can be included or skipped, and most accounts skip them so followers do not see translated conversation fragments. Your AI assistant can set which types are translated.

Which languages are supported?

The built-in AI handles most widely used languages, including Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese and Arabic. Quality varies with the language pair, so ask a native speaker to check a few translations before relying on it.

Should the translation be a reply or a quote?

A reply keeps your timeline clean, since it sits under the original, while a quote shows in followers' feeds and gets more visibility. The choice is up to you, and you can switch it later with a change you approve.

What permissions does it need?

tweet.read tweet.write users.read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it checks. Checks that find nothing new and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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