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X (Twitter)

TryPost supports posting to X (formerly Twitter) accounts.

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Connect your account

  1. Go to Accounts in the TryPost dashboard
  2. Click Connect X
  3. Authorize TryPost on X

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Supported content types

X charges much more to deliver a post that carries a link, and shows it to fewer people. To keep a post out of that bracket, TryPost publishes the X version of a post with its links written non-clickable: https://www.example.com/pricing goes out as example(.)com/pricing. Only the X version changes. The same post published to your other networks keeps its links exactly as you typed them, and nothing in your draft is edited — the rewrite happens on the way out. The editor previews the X post as it will be published and counts characters against that same text, so the limit reflects what X receives. A reader reaches the page by copying the address and putting the dots back — the trade for keeping the post’s reach.
Self-hosting TryPost? Links go out untouched there by default, since you publish through your own X app and pay your own X bill — see link defusing on X.

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OAuth scopes

tweet.read, tweet.write, users.read, media.write, offline.access offline.access is required so TryPost can refresh the access token in the background — without it, you’d have to reauthorize regularly.

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Self-hosting setup

  1. Go to X Developer Portal and create a project/app
  2. Enable OAuth 2.0 in your app settings
  3. On the User authentication settings page, enable the scopes listed above
  4. Set the redirect URL to {APP_URL}/accounts/x/callback
  5. Add to your .env: