Casting
How to Watch X (Twitter) Videos on Your TV
X, formerly Twitter, has quietly become a video app. There is a dedicated video tab, clips autoplay everywhere, and a lot of what gets shared in your group chat now starts as an X post. But there is no X app for your TV and no cast button anywhere in it, so all that video stays stuck on your phone. Here is how to get the X videos you want onto the big screen.
Why X video is awkward on a TV
X began as a text timeline and grew video bolted on top. A single clip is wrapped in a post, replies, quote posts, and an endless scroll, so even when you get X onto a screen you are fighting the feed to watch one video. There is no playlist, no watch-later that plays in a row, and no native casting.
Option 1: A browser on the TV
Most smart TVs have a browser, and X works on the web. You can log in and load a post, but navigating x.com with a remote is painful, the timeline keeps pulling you sideways into replies, and you cannot queue several videos to play one after another.
Option 2: Screen mirroring
Mirroring your phone to a Chromecast or AirPlay device puts X on the TV, but it shows your entire screen: your timeline, your messages, every notification that pops in. It also pins your phone to the TV and drains the battery. For watching a few clips with the room, it is overkill and over-exposed.
Option 3: Collect the videos, then cast the queue
The tidy approach is to grab just the X videos you want and send that list to the TV. SofaScroll does this across platforms.
- Share the post. Under an X video, tap the share icon, choose Share via, then SofaScroll. The clip lands in your queue and plays as the native video, not the whole thread.
- Cast the queue. Open SofaScroll, tap Cast, and choose your Chromecast or smart TV.
- Control from your phone. Play, pause, and skip while the TV shows each video in a clean frame, with no replies or feed attached.
Just the video, not the timeline
The real win is that a queue strips away everything around the post. You get the clip itself, in order, with a clear end, instead of a feed that scrolls forever and a comment section you did not ask for. It is the difference between watching and falling back into the timeline.
Mix X with TikTok, Reels, and Shorts
Nobody watches only X. Because SofaScroll combines X with TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and Facebook in one queue, a TV night can include videos from all of them without app-hopping. Share a room so a partner or friends add clips too, then save the best to a vault to replay another night.
In short
X will not cast itself, and mirroring throws your whole timeline at the room. Collect the X videos you want in a queue and cast that for a clean watch on the big screen.
Frequently asked questions
Can you watch X (Twitter) videos on a TV?
Yes, but not through X directly, since it has no TV app or cast button. Collect the videos in SofaScroll and cast the queue to a Chromecast or smart TV.
Does X have a cast or AirPlay button?
No. X has no built-in casting. You can mirror your phone, which shows your whole screen, or use SofaScroll to cast just a queue of the videos you picked.
Will it play just the video instead of the whole thread?
Yes. Sharing an X post to SofaScroll plays the native video on its own, without the replies, quote posts, or feed around it.