How to
How to sign up for Premium
How to check your subscription status
Where to find your Premium Feature settings
How to edit a post
How to customize the post Undo period
How to customize which types of posts the Undo post feature applies to
How to Undo a post from the notification immediately after composing
How to customize your >x< App icon
How to customize your >x< App Color theme
How to create a longer post
How to edit a longer post
How to turn Reader Mode on/off from a post
How to create a Bookmark Folder from your Home timeline
How to create a Bookmark Folder from your Profile menu
How to Add/Remove a post you’ve Bookmarked to an existing Folders from the Profile
How to Add/Remove a post you’ve Bookmarked to a new Folder
How to find the Spaces tab
Managing your >x< Premium subscription
- Open the Profile menu on your app or the side navigation on x.com.
- Select Get Premium+ on your app or Premium on x.com.
- Select the tier, then select Subscribe & Pay button.
- If you haven’t already, you’ll be prompted to verify your phone number.
- Then, follow the in-app purchase instructions for iOS or Android and confirm your subscription payment on web.
- Congrats! You’re now a >x< Premium Member! Your account will be reviewed, and if approved, you will receive a blue checkmark.
- Navigate to the Profile menu on your app or the side navigation on x.com.
- Select Premium and then tap Preferences on your app, or choose Premium on x.com.
- You will see a card at the top showing your current Premium tier, with the text Manage on the right, indicating you're enrolled in >x< Premium.
Customizing your Subscription features
After you sign up for >x< Premium, you’ll be able to manage your subscription and customize your Premium features from the membership page.
- Navigate to the Profile menu on your app or the side navigation on x.com.
- On your app, select Premium and then tap Preferences. Under Early access to select new features and Extras, select the features you’d like to customize:
- Undo post
- Color theme
- App icon
- Custom navigation
- Profile customization
- On x.com, choose Premium, under Customization and the gear icon in the top right, select the features you’d like to customize:
- Undo post
- Color theme
- Profile customization
Edit posts
This highly requested feature gives you the opportunity to make changes to published posts. Use it to make updates, tag someone, or reorder the media you attached. Edit posts currently only applies to original posts and Quotes. Once an author has replied to their own post, the original post is no longer editable.
You’ll have the opportunity to make up to five edits in a 1 hour window. You can only edit a post from the same device you sent your original post.
- Compose and send a post, you will be notified that you have 1 hour to edit your post.
- Select the icon in the top right corner of your post and choose Edit post.
- Make any necessary edits to the body of your post.
- Click the Update button to send your edited post.
Using Undo post
Undo post is available in the >x< for iOS and Android app and >x< website and is turned on by default when you subscribe to Premium. You can turn the feature on or off from your >x< Premium settings. When turned off, you won’t see the Undo post prompt, and your post sends right away. When turned on, your post is completely private during the post Undo period. Your followers won’t see the post until the Undo post timer expires or you tap Send now.
- Navigate to the Profile menu on your app or the side navigation on x.com.
- On your app, select Premium and then tap Preferences.
- Tap Early access to select new features.
- Tap Undo post.
- Tap Undo post timing.
- Choose between 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds or 60 seconds.
- On x.com, tap Premium.
- Tap the gear icon in the top right corner.
- Tap Undo post.
- Choose between 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds or 60 seconds under Post Undo period.
- Navigate to the Profile menu on your app or the side navigation on x.com.
- On your app, select Premium and then tap Preferences.
- Tap Early access to select new features.
- Tap Undo post.
- Use the toggle to turn on/off the type of posts you want to undo: Original posts, Replies, Threads, Quotes, and Poll posts.
- On x.com, tap Premium.
- Tap the gear icon in the top right corner.
- Tap Undo post.
- Use the checkbox to turn on/off the type of posts you want to undo: Original post, Replies, Polls, Quotes, and Threads.
- Before you post, check your Undo post setting (it’s on by default if you haven’t turned it off).
- Compose and Send your post.
- Tap View post in the Sending post notification that appears immediately after you send your post.
- You’ll see your post displayed with a timer in the bottom left counting down your post Undo period.
- Tap Undo.
- You’ll go to Composer where you can revise your post.
- If you tapped Undo, revise your post in the post Composer and tap post.
- Once the Undo post timer expires, your post posts to your timeline, and is visible to your followers.
Customizing your >x< app icon
This feature lets you pick how your >x< app icon displays on your phone. Choose from several colorful options.
- From the Profile menu, select Premium and then tap Preferences on your app.
- Tap Extras.
- Tap App Icon.
- Tap an icon for your >x< app icon.
- A green check will appear below the icon you have chosen.
- Tap the back arrow to return to your >x< Premium settings page.
Customizing your >x< app color theme
This feature lets you choose the theme colors for your >x< app.
- From the Profile menu, select Premium and then tap Preferences on your app.
- Tap Extras.
- Tap Theme.
- Tap a color for your >x< app Home page.
- A green check will appear below the color you have chosen.
- Tap the back arrow to return to your Premium settings page.
Longer posts
Want to post more than 280 characters? Longer posts allow you to post up to 25,000 characters. You can also compose longer posts in a Quote or reply, and add rich text (bold and italics). Standard functionality like posting media, creating polls, and using hashtags still apply. Longer posts cannot yet be scheduled.
Longer posts are created the exact same way you would a regular post
Select the compose icon .
You can include photos, a GIF, or a video (and up to 4 total media items, e.g. 2 photos, 1 GIF, and 1 video) in your post.
Compose your message. When you reach 280 characters, the word count will switch from tracking your progress around the perimeter of the circle icon to filling it.
Once you’ve finished writing, select post.
- Compose and send a longer post, you will be notified that you have 1 hour to edit your post.
- Select the icon in the top right corner of your post and choose Edit post.
- Make any necessary edits to the body of your post.
- Click the Update button to send your edited post.
Customizing your Reader Mode Feature
Reader Mode makes threads on >x< easier to read by turning them into readable text so you can read all the latest content seamlessly.
- Go to the top right of the post details.
- Tap the Reader Mode icon to turn this feature on.
- Tap the Reader Mode icon to turn the feature off.
Creating and Managing Bookmark Folders
Bookmark Folders help you organize your saved posts. There are several ways to create a Bookmark Folder, but they all require you to Bookmark a post first. As a Premium member, when you create a new Bookmarks you’ll see a notification with the option to Add to Folder right away. Premium allows you an unlimited number of bookmarks and Bookmark folders which are always private.
From a post, long press the Bookmark icon.
You will be presented with an option to Add to Folder.
Tap the icon to create and name your folder.
Every Bookmark will also be saved to the All Bookmarks folder.
- Tap Bookmarks.
- Tap the New Folder icon on the bottom of the Bookmarks page.
- Enter a name for your Folder.
- Tap Create.
From the Profile menu, tap Bookmarks.
Tap All Bookmarks.
Long press the Bookmarkicon at the bottom of your post you want to add to a Folder.
Tap the name of the Folders where you’d like to see your Bookmark.
A notification will appear to let you know your Bookmark was saved to the Folders.
To remove a saved Bookmark from a Bookmark Folder follow the steps 1-3. Long pressing the Bookmark icon again removes it from the folder.
Note: Removing a Bookmark from a folder doesn’t delete it from your account. If you’d like to permanently delete a Bookmark, simply tap the Bookmark icon from the post details. You can also tap the more icon at the top of your Bookmarks timeline to remove all of your Bookmarks at once.
From the Profile menu, tap Bookmarks.
Tap All Bookmarks.
Long press the Bookmark icon at the bottom of your post you want to add to a Folder.
Tap the icon to create and name the folder where you’d like to see your Bookmark.
A notification will appear to let you know your Bookmark was saved to the Folder.
To remove a saved Bookmark from a Bookmark Folder follow the steps 1-3. Long pressing the Bookmark icon again removes it from the folder.
How to find the Spaces tab
The spaces tab will be located at the bottom of your timeline between the explore and notifications icon.
You can find podcasts, themed audio stations, recorded Spaces, and live Spaces within the Spaces tab. To learn about everything available in the Spaces tab, read more here.