The best time to send out your tweets.

paulmc · 09-13-2010, 02:16 PM

If you use twitter as a marketing tool then it’s important you send your tweets out at a time that reaches the maximum amount of your followers as possible. This will ensure maximum exposure.
There a many different factors to take into account to achieve this, such as time zones, the location of your followers, target audience, etc.
Here are a couple of tips for maximum exposure.

1. The Best Single Time to Tweet
According to research the best single time of day to tweet is 9:00am PST (Pacific Standard Time).
The reason for this is you’re hitting 3 major time zones at peak periods.
· People arriving at work on the West Coast of America and Canada, i.e. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, etc
· It’s lunchtime (12:00 pm EST) on the East Coast of America, i.e. New York
· It’s end of the business day in the UK (5:00 pm GMT)

2. What time are most tweeters sending & reading tweets?
Again studies have shown more internet users are online for personal reasons (tweeting, checking internet banking, personal emails, etc) between the following time periods:

Weekdays

11:30am – 12:15 pm before lunch
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm after lunch
After 6 pm after work

Weekends

Sunday after 6pm

backpacker · 10-22-2010, 09:27 AM

Hi paulmc,

This is really a great inbformation which can help us to tweets out tweet. Thanks to share this valuable infromation. I have a question regrding the tweets that how many tweet we can twwet in a day. Do have any idea baout that?

faceifacts · 10-27-2010, 03:01 PM

Wow never knew this mattered so much, but it makes sense, good info.

soma56 · 01-07-2011, 04:47 AM

An interesting concept. I never would have assumed that tweeting at a specific time would increase your reads. However, logically it makes sense. So does this mean you set your alarm clock to go off at peak tweet read periods?

yasmin · 01-07-2011, 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulmc

If you use twitter as a marketing tool then it’s important you send your tweets out at a time that reaches the maximum amount of your followers as possible. This will ensure maximum exposure.
There a many different factors to take into account to achieve this, such as time zones, the location of your followers, target audience, etc.
Here are a couple of tips for maximum exposure.

1. The Best Single Time to Tweet
According to research the best single time of day to tweet is 9:00am PST (Pacific Standard Time).
The reason for this is you’re hitting 3 major time zones at peak periods.
· People arriving at work on the West Coast of America and Canada, i.e. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, etc
· It’s lunchtime (12:00 pm EST) on the East Coast of America, i.e. New York
· It’s end of the business day in the UK (5:00 pm GMT)

2. What time are most tweeters sending & reading tweets?
Again studies have shown more internet users are online for personal reasons (tweeting, checking internet banking, personal emails, etc) between the following time periods:

Weekdays

11:30am – 12:15 pm before lunch
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm after lunch
After 6 pm after work

Weekends

Sunday after 6pm

Thanks so much! I have to add, from personal experience, always share something personal when twitting... You cant believe the difference in conversions!!!!

Ryuren · 01-10-2011, 02:36 PM

Ah being from the Uk, I find that interesting, so it's 5pm, the ebst time to send out tweets? that may come in handy, it's definely worth a try and see if it brings in more interest than say at 11am.

SEOArbiter · 01-18-2011, 11:07 PM

Interest post. Twitter is another great resource to grow our online presence one tweet at a time.

Jennifer · 01-27-2011, 02:31 PM

I find this to be true in other messages as well, such as facebook newsfeeds. However, if your main audience is on the east coast, I would consider sending off messages at 8am EST.

Does anyone use separate Twitter handles for the US and Europe and Asia due to time differences?

Janet · 01-28-2011, 10:23 AM

Useful information indeed..

I have tried this style with Email Marketing and that really worked for me.
The difference was obvious.

SpitFireSF · 02-14-2011, 01:44 AM

I was looking for this information, thank you !