How to Schedule a Week of AI-Generated Tweets with OpenClaw and OpenTweet
Writing tweets by hand every day is a grind. You sit there staring at a blank compose box, trying to think of something worth posting, and 20 minutes later you've written one mediocre tweet. Multiply that by 7 days and you've burned over two hours on something that should take minutes.
There's a better way. You can use OpenClaw -- the open-source AI agent with 200K+ GitHub stars -- to generate a full week of tweets and schedule them through OpenTweet's API. The whole process takes under 5 minutes. Not "5 minutes" in the marketing sense where it actually takes an hour. Literally under 5 minutes.
Here's exactly how to do it.
What You'll Need
Before we start, make sure you have:
- An OpenTweet account (free 7-day trial, then $5.99/month)
- OpenClaw installed on your machine (setup guide)
- The OpenTweet ClawHub skill installed
If you haven't connected OpenClaw to OpenTweet yet, follow our integration guide. It takes about 3 minutes.
The quick version:
clawhub install opentweet-x-poster
export OPENTWEET_API_KEY="ot_your_key_here"
That's it for setup. Let's generate some content.
The Workflow Overview
Here's what happens end to end:
You define topics
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OpenClaw generates tweets (using Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, etc.)
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OpenClaw calls OpenTweet API to schedule them
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OpenTweet auto-publishes at the scheduled times
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You sip coffee and check analytics
Your agent handles steps 2-4 autonomously. You handle step 1 (the creative direction) and step 5 (the coffee).
Step 1: Define Your Content Strategy
The quality of your AI-generated tweets depends almost entirely on the context you give your agent. "Write some tweets" produces garbage. Specific instructions produce content that actually sounds like you.
Think about three things:
- Your niche. What do you talk about? Be specific. "Tech" is too broad. "Building SaaS products as a solo founder" gives the agent something to work with.
- Your audience. Who are you writing for? Other developers? Marketing people? Startup founders? This shapes the tone and references.
- Content mix. You don't want 7 days of the same tweet format. Mix it up: tips, opinions, questions, personal updates, threads.
A good content mix for one week looks like this:
| Day | Content Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Tactical tip | Provide value, start the week strong |
| Tuesday | Opinion/hot take | Drive engagement and replies |
| Wednesday | Thread (3-5 tweets) | Deep dive, algorithm boost |
| Thursday | Question | Spark conversation |
| Friday | Personal update | Build connection |
| Saturday | Industry observation | Show expertise |
| Sunday | Curated insight | Stay visible on low-activity days |
You don't need to plan this every week. Define it once and reuse the structure.
Step 2: Generate Content with OpenClaw
Now you tell your agent what to create. Here's the prompt I'd use for a SaaS founder:
openclaw "I run a SaaS startup that builds developer tools. My audience
is indie hackers and solo founders. Generate 10 tweets for this week
covering: 2 product building tips, 2 industry hot takes, 1 thread about
a common mistake founders make, 2 engagement questions, 1 personal
building-in-public update, and 2 short observations about the dev tools
market. Tone: direct, conversational, slightly opinionated. No hashtags.
No emojis. Short sentences. Schedule them across the week at optimal
posting times (9am, 12pm, or 5pm EST)."
Your agent processes this and generates something like:
Tweet 1 (Monday 9am - Tip):
Ship the ugly version first. I've watched founders spend 3 months on pixel-perfect landing pages for products nobody wants. Get 10 users before you hire a designer.
Tweet 2 (Monday 5pm - Hot take):
Hot take: most "developer tools" are solutions looking for problems. If you can't explain what your tool does in one sentence without using the word "platform," you don't have product-market fit.
Tweet 3 (Tuesday 12pm - Tip):
Your pricing page is your most important page. Not your homepage. Not your features page. The pricing page is where decisions happen. Spend 80% of your design time there.
Tweet 4 (Wednesday 9am - Thread):
The #1 mistake I see first-time SaaS founders make: building features instead of talking to users. A thread on what to do instead:
1/ You launch your MVP. You get 20 signups. 3 people actually use it. Your instinct says "add more features." That instinct is wrong.
2/ Those 3 active users are gold. Talk to every single one. Ask: what made you sign up? What almost made you leave? What's the one thing you wish it did?
3/ The features they ask for are rarely what you'd build next. That disconnect between your roadmap and their needs? That's the gap where startups die.
4/ Do this every week for a month. You'll have a clearer product direction than any amount of competitor analysis could give you.
Tweet 5 (Thursday 9am - Question):
Founders: what's one tool you pay for that you'd build yourself if you had a free weekend? Genuinely curious.
Tweet 6 (Thursday 5pm - Question):
What's the hardest part of your week as a solo founder? For me it's context switching between coding and marketing. They use completely different parts of my brain.
Tweet 7 (Friday 12pm - Personal update):
Week 14 building in public: crossed 500 daily active users yesterday. Took 11 weeks to get to 100 and 3 weeks to get to 500. Distribution compounds in weird ways.
Tweet 8 (Saturday 9am - Observation):
Noticed a pattern: the dev tools that grow fastest aren't the most powerful ones. They're the ones with the best onboarding. If someone can't get value in under 5 minutes, they're gone.
You get the idea. Eight tweets covering different formats, different angles, different days. These are drafts -- you'll want to review and edit before they go live. But the heavy lifting is done.
Step 3: Schedule via OpenTweet API
Here's what happens behind the scenes. Your OpenClaw agent takes those tweets and hits the OpenTweet bulk create endpoint:
POST /api/v1/posts
Authorization: Bearer ot_your_key_here
{
"posts": [
{
"text": "Ship the ugly version first. I've watched founders spend 3 months on pixel-perfect landing pages for products nobody wants. Get 10 users before you hire a designer.",
"scheduled_date": "2026-02-23T14:00:00Z"
},
{
"text": "Hot take: most \"developer tools\" are solutions looking for problems. If you can't explain what your tool does in one sentence without using the word \"platform,\" you don't have product-market fit.",
"scheduled_date": "2026-02-23T22:00:00Z"
},
{
"text": "Your pricing page is your most important page. Not your homepage. Not your features page. The pricing page is where decisions happen. Spend 80% of your design time there.",
"scheduled_date": "2026-02-24T17:00:00Z"
},
{
"text": "Founders: what's one tool you pay for that you'd build yourself if you had a free weekend? Genuinely curious.",
"scheduled_date": "2026-02-26T14:00:00Z"
},
{
"text": "Week 14 building in public: crossed 500 daily active users yesterday. Took 11 weeks to get to 100 and 3 weeks to get to 500. Distribution compounds in weird ways.",
"scheduled_date": "2026-02-27T17:00:00Z"
}
]
}
One API call. Multiple tweets. Scheduled across the entire week. The bulk create endpoint accepts up to 50 posts at once, so even if you're scheduling a month ahead, it's just one request.
For threads, the agent uses the thread fields:
{
"posts": [
{
"text": "The #1 mistake I see first-time SaaS founders make: building features instead of talking to users. A thread:",
"scheduled_date": "2026-02-25T14:00:00Z",
"is_thread": true,
"thread_tweets": [
"You launch your MVP. You get 20 signups. 3 people actually use it. Your instinct says \"add more features.\" That instinct is wrong.",
"Those 3 active users are gold. Talk to every single one. Ask: what made you sign up? What almost made you leave? What's the one thing you wish it did?",
"The features they ask for are rarely what you'd build next. That disconnect between your roadmap and their needs? That's the gap where startups die.",
"Do this every week for a month. You'll have a clearer product direction than any amount of competitor analysis could give you."
]
}
]
}
The response comes back with post IDs, statuses, and scheduled times. Your agent logs the confirmation and you're done.
Step 4: Review in OpenTweet Calendar
This is the part where you stay in control.
Log in to opentweet.io and open the visual calendar. You'll see all your scheduled posts laid out across the week. Each post shows the text preview, scheduled time, and status (draft, scheduled, or posted).
From the calendar you can:
- Drag and drop posts to different time slots if the spacing doesn't look right
- Click any post to edit the text before it publishes
- Delete posts that don't feel right after a second read
- Add posts manually to fill any gaps your agent missed
The calendar view is where you catch things like three tweets scheduled too close together, or a hot take sitting right next to a thread (which would split your engagement). Five minutes of visual review saves you from posting mistakes.
Advanced: Recurring Weekly Automation
Once you've dialed in your prompts and you're happy with the quality, you can automate the entire thing on a recurring schedule.
Option 1: OpenClaw's Built-in Scheduling
openclaw "every Monday at 8am, generate and schedule this week's tweets
about AI trends and developer productivity. Use my standard content mix:
2 tips, 2 opinions, 1 thread, 2 questions, 1 personal update, 2
observations. Schedule them across the week at 9am, 12pm, and 5pm EST.
Create as drafts so I can review before they go live."
Your agent runs this every Monday morning. By the time you open your laptop, your week's content is sitting in OpenTweet as drafts waiting for your approval.
Option 2: Cron Job
If you want more control, set up a cron job:
# Run every Monday at 8:00 AM
0 8 * * 1 openclaw "generate and schedule this week's tweets" --config ~/.openclaw/weekly-tweets.json
The config file stores your prompt, content strategy, and scheduling preferences so you don't have to repeat them every time.
Option 3: Create Drafts First
If full automation feels risky (and honestly, it should for sensitive topics), set up the workflow to create everything as drafts:
openclaw "generate 10 tweets for this week about [your niche]. Create
them as drafts in OpenTweet, not scheduled. I'll review and schedule
them manually."
This gives you the speed of AI generation with the safety net of manual review. Best of both worlds.
Pro Tips for Better Results
After running this workflow for a while, here's what I've learned:
1. Mix Your Content Types
Don't generate 10 tips. Don't generate 10 hot takes. Mix it up. Questions get replies. Tips get bookmarks. Hot takes get quote tweets. Threads get follows. Each format serves a different purpose.
A good ratio for 10 weekly tweets:
- 2-3 tactical tips
- 2 opinions or hot takes
- 1 thread
- 2 engagement questions
- 1 personal update
- 1-2 industry observations
2. Space Posts Across Peak Hours
Don't schedule everything at 9am. Spread your tweets across the day:
- 9:00 AM EST -- Morning commute scrollers
- 12:00 PM EST -- Lunch break engagement
- 5:00 PM EST -- End-of-day wind-down
And vary which slots you use each day. Predictable posting times lead to predictable (lower) reach.
3. Always Review Before Publishing
AI-generated content is a draft. Always. Even if you've been running the workflow for months and the quality is consistently good. Skim every tweet before it goes live, especially:
- Anything that could be read as insensitive given current events
- Claims about specific companies or people
- Numbers and statistics (AI hallucinates these)
- Hot takes that might not age well
The draft-first workflow in OpenTweet exists for exactly this reason.
4. Feed Winners Back to Your Agent
Every week, check which tweets performed best. Take your top 3 performers and add them to your agent's context:
openclaw "here are my 3 best-performing tweets this month:
1. [tweet text]
2. [tweet text]
3. [tweet text]
Generate 10 new tweets in the same style and tone for next week."
This creates a feedback loop. Your agent gets better at matching your voice over time because it's learning from what actually works, not just what sounds good.
5. Don't Over-Automate
The goal is to free up time for real engagement, not to turn your Twitter presence into a bot. Use AI for content creation. Handle replies, DMs, and conversations yourself. The human parts of Twitter are what build real relationships.
The Numbers
Here's what this workflow looks like in practice:
| Task | Manual Approach | OpenClaw + OpenTweet |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly content ideation | 30-60 minutes | 0 minutes (agent handles it) |
| Writing 10 tweets | 50-100 minutes | 2 minutes (review + edit) |
| Scheduling | 10-15 minutes | 0 minutes (agent handles it) |
| Total weekly time | 90-175 minutes | Under 5 minutes |
| Posts per week | 5-7 (inconsistent) | 10-14 (consistent) |
| Burnout risk | High after month 2 | Low |
The math is straightforward. You save 1.5 to 3 hours every week. Over a year, that's 78 to 156 hours. And you're posting more consistently than you ever did manually.
Get Started
- Sign up for OpenTweet (7-day free trial)
- Connect your X account and generate an API key
- Install the skill:
clawhub install opentweet-x-poster - Set your key:
export OPENTWEET_API_KEY="ot_your_key_here" - Run your first prompt and schedule a week of content
Five minutes from now, your entire week of Twitter content could be done. That's not a figure of speech. It's literally how long this takes.
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