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When is the best time to tweet for maximum twitter traffic and exposure?

Thu, Mar 19, 2009

Internet Marketing, Tips

You might wonder what the busiest times on twitter are, so you can then time your important tweets to give them the best chance of being seen by more of your followers.

Well, over the past couple of months I have received a LOT of visitors to my websites via twitter, I have charted them below showing how many visitors came at what hour of the day.


The time is set to Pacific Time, to see the difference between pacific time and your time zone, click here.

As you can see, I got most of my referrals from twitter between 1pm and 2pm.

But going on this data, it looks as though posting any time from 9am to 3pm will give you the best chance of getting exposure and traffic from twitter.

The chart shows how you could be cutting your chances of getting exposure on twitter in half depending on when you post your tweets.

Now, I think I’ll wait about 10 hours before I let my followers know about this new blog post! :)

Have you noticed any particular times or days when twitter seems most busy?

Click here to learn more about how to capitalize on Twitter.

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204 Comments For This Post

  1. Chris Ducker Says:

    Hi

    Great post – I’ve been looking at this stuff, too. So, its well timed.

    Thanks for making the effort.

    C

  2. Joseph Manna, Infusionsoft Says:

    Great chart on plotting the traffic volume on Twitter! I want to offer that with Twitter, we’re able to provide value instantly and share the value to other people’s spheres of influence through RT’ing.

    If readers want to know how a small business can engage on Twitter, I published a lengthy blog entry on it:
    http://www.infusionblog.com/entrepreneur/why-your-small-business-needs-twitter/

    Thanks again for sharing this data. I’m sure many folks will be interested.

    ~Joseph

  3. Bill Davis Says:

    Interesting…when most people work, they use Twitter! Good to know. My company blocks Twitter at the firewall, so I’m screwed. Guess I’ll have to find a new employer!

  4. BillyWarhol Says:

    I will Test it Monday using this Blog comment + an amazing tool called http://www.TweeterGetter.com/BillyWarhol

    ;) )

    Cheers Gary + Everybody! Billy ;) ) Peace*

  5. Bonnie Says:

    Thanx for this!
    I got a ton a visitors!!!

  6. Laura Says:

    Great post thank’s

  7. dee yan Says:

    I’ll try, i hope it will be great, Thanks

  8. Cheerful Madness Says:

    Great post, thank you for sharing. I have been studying this myself.

    All the best,

    Cheerful Madness!!

  9. Jovie, Nature and Health Says:

    wow..it’s great post..i’m gonna try to tweet it..thx

  10. Gabriella/spark2 Says:

    Great post!Thanks! I’ll try…
    God Bless, Gabriella

  11. Margaret Elmendorf Says:

    Terrific graph. Very interesting as to what time everyone comes onto Twitter. Good info

  12. Bill Says:

    very interesting thanks for taking the time to research this.

  13. Paul Says:

    Great information…Thanks for your contributions to our success!

  14. betty ann Says:

    Great post, I am just setting up my site ,wanting to know more about blogs,and surfing twitter !
    betty ann

  15. AustinPrime Says:

    Thanks so much for this post!

  16. PJ Says:

    Thanks for this site! Your content and product are supurb.

    Humbly To Your Success;

    PJ
    “Life Is Better In Pajamas”
    http://www.GotMillionDollarPlan.com

  17. hydir Says:

    really great
    I’ve never thought to study it like that

    you have focused it well
    Thanks!

  18. Berri Says:

    Thank you for sharing this valuable information! I will adjust to my time zone and give it a try.

    Thanks Again!

    Berri

  19. pr0t0typ3 Says:

    Cheers! Good post

  20. Wet Head Says:

    Great Post and I also agree, “timing” is everything !

    Thanks for the tips!

  21. Kha, Computer Work At Home Says:

    This is very interesting chart and I did not know there is having which is the best time to tweet for maximum twitter traffic and exposure. I will test mine.

    Thanks
    Kha

  22. BlogMoneyMania Says:

    That’s excellent info. I will try this technique also!

  23. Tony Says:

    It would be interesting to compare your twitter traffic against your normal traffic.

    Tony Darrick Baker
    http://www.recessionmarketingguide.com

  24. Lynda Says:

    Hi Gary

    This is very interesting and useful.

    I live in the UK and have two of the same Widget on my desktop which give me the times in PST and EST. Tis makes it really easy for me to set the times of my Tweets and other mailouts, hopefully so I catch people when they get home in the evenign after work. (Well, that’s my thinking.)

    Your chart is going to be really helpful from now on. Thanks a million.

    Lynda

  25. Gary Cooper Says:

    looks like a winner! gary

  26. Juan Says:

    Great information. Thanks for the heads up. I always thought there was more traffic in the evenings.

    Coach Juan

  27. StoneCS Says:

    This twitter thing is really catching on. I just cut on the NASCAR race and one of the “good old boy” announcers said he’d be twitterin’ updates throughout the day. LOL

  28. iphone battery replacement Says:

    Does anyone know what is the best auto software to do tweets free or paid? What about software that generates followers? Thanks

  29. Callie Says:

    Surely this data is subject to the topic and content of your post, the geography and demographics.

    Would it not be better to target an audience rather than a mass following with out any data other than fellow Tweeters

  30. huge Says:

    good one Gary, i’ve been looking for exactly this data!

  31. Ekaterina Says:

    Wow! that’s an awesome experiment! now i know what’s the best time to expose my experience, tips & blog posts :)
    thanks, man!

  32. David Says:

    I’m glad that I got your email about this post. Since I’m EST, I’m thankful for the tool to change to EST. This is good stuff and will help me in TWEETING. Thanks: David

  33. John Bowie Says:

    All useful information to generate Twitter traffic – certainly a more scientific use of Twitter can vastly increase traffic, as we’ve found using WebTrafficRules

  34. Edwin Says:

    many thanks for share. I will try to follow.

  35. Valerie Schuster Says:

    Hi Gary,

    Thanks for the info. I am new to this so I hope it will help me. If you have a chance check out my new blog page. I just set it up a few days ago and posted my first blog. Thanks. Val S.

    http://www.ValerieSchuster.com

  36. Start An Internet Biz Says:

    Thanks Gary…man that’s a lot of traffic..is that 15,000 per hour? freak! perhaps that’s to your tweetergetter website? anyway..those times are the best times to send emails too…so I’ve heard.

    Stuart Stirling

  37. Ron Hirsu Says:

    great tips….ok 10am it is going to be for me.

    Ron Hirsu
    http://www.e-healthytimes.com/blog

  38. appuonline Says:

    Thanks for the information. Will definitely keep it in mind.

    twitter.com/appuonline

  39. Terri Says:

    Love your tips and great post. I will be monitoring my tweets to send during these times.

  40. Ralf Engel Says:

    Hi,
    it is interesting to learn about time frames on twitter use. But, a much more important issue is to get followers. I’ve been twittering for 2 months now and only have a hundred or so visitors. Thus I wonder where Gary got these huge amounts of followers from? I mean, he gets up to 15,000 hits at best times which means he’s got to have some 30,000 followers at least. How do you get that many followers?

  41. Rebecca Beasley Says:

    Great post. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
    Becky
    http://www.twitter.com/heartuvgold

  42. ROCKET MEDIA - Laura Says:

    This is awesome to see and very helpful. Thank you for sharing. Now I know that my late night Tweeting is being ignored :)

    @rocketmedia & @FeatherLK

  43. Elizabeth Bennett Says:

    Hi, thanks so much for this information!

    Take Care,
    Elizabeth

  44. Paul e Watts Says:

    Interesting post Gary and I will certainly look into and analyse response against time but surely if you have a bank of twitter followers from all over the world then it’s not so important.

    I can understand the need for targetting using your own time-zone but it has no real effect if you have a multi-national follow-base. Unless I’ve missed something here!?

  45. Beth Bastian Says:

    I have been keeping track myself, for me I get the best results between 3-4PM Pacific Time, however I also do alright between 11-12 noon.

  46. smashill Says:

    Sometimes there are too many stats for personal use, and this is one of those stats. At least in case you don’t have someone who is tweeting for you. Interesting for businesses though, as they can obtain maximum exposure.

  47. malcolm coles Says:

    I just did a survey of 120ish Twitter users: http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/best-time-tweet/ which might be of interest. It found:

    * Half of people read every tweet.
    * At 4pm-5pm, 56% of Twitter users are looking at tweets, but only 39% are sending them – a margin of 17%.
    * Weekend Twitter users are much more likely to be tweeting than weekday Twitter users who often just browse tweets.
    * As a proportion of all tweets, use of the term RT (for retweet) is highest at 4pm.
    And lots of other things too!

  48. Gary Says:

    Some excellent info there Malcolm, thanks.

  49. Mat Morrison Says:

    Gary,

    Surely this needs to take into account the timezone in which the majority of one’s first and second degree network exist? If (for example) the majority are on CET (for Europeans) or GMT/BST (for the UK) ones charts will differ significantly?

    Why are you recording PST rather than BST for your own research?

  50. Gary Says:

    Hey Matt – I’ve just been using the default timezone setting in my web analytics program.

  51. Matej Varga Says:

    Good info !

  52. Odzyskiwanie Danych Says:

    so it looks that when we are working we are sitting on twitter – no wonder that ther is a crisis around :)

  53. paidsurveyreview Says:

    any book how to learn more with twitter..??

  54. Gary Says:

    Try http://tweetergetter.com/manifesto.html

  55. Don Guindon Says:

    Interesting info to know and it does make sense, once everyone is at work the tweets start coming!

    I have a few blog post on how to use twitter as a marketing tool and the some suggested ways to succeed.

    http://forourinfo.net/how-you-can-use-twitter-to-market-your-products

  56. TOMMY FENLEY Says:

    Great post…we all need to make money

  57. Natalie Petronijevic Says:

    This is a very helpful information!!
    Thank’s

    https://twitter.com/natimaric
    http://tweetergetter.com/natimaric

  58. amna althani Says:

    its doesn’t make much sense to me?

  59. Millionaire Mommy Says:

    Thanks for thinking of others!

  60. trackermo Says:

    Hi!

    I follow you on Twitter and, in fact, signed up for your TweeterGetter when it first came out.

    Anyway, I just caught a post by someone else I follow that was promoting http://mynewtweeps.com/, which seems like a direct knockoff of tweetergetter.

    Don’t know what you can do about it– if anything. But, I thought you should know. I did point it out in a response to the person– and mentioned that Tweeter Getter came out months ago.

    Tracker MO
    (Marige O’Brien)

  61. Gary Says:

    Hi,

    Yea there are a few clones, thats the first I’ve heard of that one but thats is I think the 5th clone I’ve come across.

    I don’t mind so much really, tweetergetter is the original and will always be the most popular. The clones will find it hard to gain momentum.

    Gary.

  62. mikayla Says:

    Could someone please tell me how to delete this, I did at that to my twitter and now I dont want it because people are following me that I dont want to follow me:-(((( HELP PLEASE SOMEONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  63. Emerging Market Consultant Says:

    Thanks for the tip, Improving our community experience is always important. I follow you on tweeter.

  64. Heidi Walter Says:

    Have any idea when Oprah tweets? I’m trying to get her to follow me.

  65. Heidi Walter Says:

    Sorry, but your timer is off. I just left a comment and it said it was 5:06 PM. Here in Chicago it’s 12:07PM.

  66. Gary Says:

    No idea. Check the times under each tweet on her page.

  67. Gary Says:

    I think the timer is set to GMT, my time, here in the UK. :)

  68. lilddaprince Says:

    Grreat post, this will really be useful when im not home(phone)

    check out the music

    myspace.com/daedae81

  69. Darrell Says:

    just started tweeting and lovin it! Twitter is such a powerful business tool can’t believe i’m just starting TWEET!

  70. Thomas Wheelock Says:

    Thank you Gary for sharing your findings with me/us. Very useful info! You the Man! Going to post’em note this to my computer. I’ve just recently started using Twitter, and right now I am learning as much as possible about twittering, so I can effectively market there. Thanks again for this post!

  71. Internet Marketing Blog Says:

    Awesome post! Just what I needed. Now I can schedule some of my post to take advantage of the high traffic during those peak hours.

    Tom

  72. Jim Clary Says:

    Very interesting info, thanks for sharing

  73. K-OTIC Says:

    Good Post!

  74. enibas Says:

    Hi, after checking this results (what an exposure), there is absolutely no reason to figure out at what time to post. Even midnight is great! This schedule tells you everything. Additionally put time zones into consideration. Twitter does a good job for all of us.
    Regards, Peter

  75. Lynn Says:

    Great post – As the saying goes, “It’s all in the timing.”

    http://www.teamupwithlynn.com
    lynn.getthebar@bmail.com

  76. iklan Says:

    thanks Gerry, its Great Idea for me..

    Regard,

    Andri
    http://www.iklan-sukses.com

  77. Jon Says:

    interesting statistics

  78. Diane Says:

    Great Post!!! Great info!!!

  79. ace Says:

    That is interesting.

  80. Ty Lamai Says:

    Cool. I will check this out!

  81. E.G. Sebastian Says:

    I was wondering about this stuff… Especially when you have hundreds or thousands of followers, your tweets can get lost in the sea of tweets.

    Great info – thanks!

  82. pedagangIT Says:

    great info… i have to create by viral twitter application … take look bro

  83. Mortgage Says:

    Hi Gary..
    Thanks for this great tool.
    Hope this will increase my traffic> http://tweetergetter.com/adimurvi

  84. Spiritual Copy Says:

    This is some great info. I always wondered when Twitter was the busiest! I suppose that means you should schedule your Tweets closer together during the middle of the day… then less frequent early morning and evening.

    Hmmmm…. interesting…

  85. John Beck Property Vault Says:

    Fantastic post on Internet marketing. I am running a blog on internet Marketing. So this post will help me expand my blog. Thanks

  86. MaryMooh Says:

    thanx for this^^
    http://twitter.com/MaryMooh

  87. Suhaimi Rahman Says:

    Hi Gary,

    Good info about the Twitter findings. I wander what ill be the percentage for a website conversion.

    I will check out this “TweeterGetter”

    Thanks!

  88. worldwideweller Says:

    hitting twitter hard this week!!, , , thanks for your tweetergetter!!…

    I’m in Hawaii, so right when i wake up they’re running full speed!lol

  89. Anan Says:

    great stuff man .

  90. PLM Says:

    Very interesting data you’ve got there. Nice intel

  91. sirpilkington Says:

    hmmm interesting old bean, but where is the traffic coming from?

  92. hjmart Says:

    Very interesting info! Thank you!

  93. IrishBlog Says:

    Yeah, Totally agree.

  94. Elaine Spitz Says:

    Thanks, Gary, for the follow and for this very helpful data.
    Best,
    Elaine/Laineyd7

  95. Anne Marie Says:

    Great thing to know … i see a lot of people are using Twitter at work. What a fact now, I know what people are doing at work ;-)

  96. Wyposazenie Hoteli Says:

    The 5am spike is weird. Are people seriously up this early and sitting on twitter? Seem pretty weird to me.

  97. Chan Says:

    great of all!

  98. Ricky Isfandiari Says:

    very good,amazing..thx bro..

  99. Very1967 Says:

    I hope the data in this short study will gathered from HUNDREDS
    of THOUSANDS of visitors drive to my websites using
    twitter in just the next few months.

  100. Dario Montes de Oca Says:

    Absolutely genius.

    This is definite a retweet I’ll pass on to my followers. For those reading this looking for “secret” marketing information, this is it!

    Keep up the awesome work Gary.

    Dario Montes de Oca

  101. Vera Yeboah Says:

    I hope to get as much visitors after studying this.

  102. affiliate blog Says:

    Thanks Good to know

  103. Paul Palmer Says:

    I like your research, that many clicks is excellent throughout the whole period. Did you use the same subject throughout?

    How many days did you study? I’m assuming it wasn’t so many thousands for a single post.

    http://www.paulpalmer.ws

  104. Gary Says:

    Hi Paul,

    Its all the traffic I generated from twitter over several Months.

    They didn’t all come in from my posts on my twitter account, they came from other people also tweeting about my site to their followers too.

    Like they can do with the ‘retweet’ button on the top of this post. :)

    Gary.

  105. chokey Says:

    Thank,s for your article,
    I already put your promo in widget at my blog

  106. Brad Says:

    Thanks Gary! Your stats are quite encouraging and it’s good to know certain times are better than others. Also seeing a spike at 5 AM which is Pacific time, means more people in the eastern standard time zone which is 8 am EST are twittering.

    http://www.people-scanner.com

  107. Brad Says:

    Thanks Gary! It’s good to know certain times are better than others. I noticed between 10 AM and 2 PM seems to be the higher level of traffic.

  108. Muhamad Ikhtiaruddin Says:

    great info bro, thanks

  109. Raxy Teng Says:

    Thanks for your help,

  110. Twitter Marketing Agency Says:

    Looks like for your followers anywhere from between 5am to 9pm is an okay time for you to Tweet if you’re looking to get the most exposure for your tweets. Tx for the diagram.

  111. chino Says:

    Great piece of information. I am going to test it ASAP!!!! Thanks for the time and consideration you took upon yourself for writing and sharing this article……

  112. Affordable Wealth Solution Says:

    Wow, this is excellent information. I find these times are the best as well.

  113. Derrick Says:

    Thanks for the awesome tips and informations.

    Cheers!

  114. Madeline Says:

    Where do you all get 1-2PM PST?
    That is 15,037

    Whereas 10 AM PST is 15,088

    So the later if better than the former, right?

  115. Heavenly Kimes Says:

    Good Stuff i look forward to seeing results!

  116. Patrick Says:

    Great information, Thank You!!!

  117. mp009 Says:

    i still did not get my central time hours, still i am gona try.thanks

  118. Stephen J. Ardent Says:

    Thanks, this info is opening up a whole new world for me.

  119. Hannah Rae Says:

    Man this is all so new to me, I see I have heaps to learn. I just arrived at your blog from clicking on a link sent when I followed someone…
    whew, does it get any easier as time goes on, coz right now I’m pretty confused.

    And now I have to get the time of day right?

  120. Yusno Says:

    thanks for the information

  121. Mario Pesce Says:

    Hi,

    interesting information. In my time zome the best time would be after 10 p.m.

    Thank you

    Mario Pesce

  122. Norma C. Says:

    I am just know at this but look forward to having people know our website with the pet cremation urns.

  123. Brian Lawrence Says:

    Hi Gary,

    I never really gave this much thought but after see your chart here; it really does make sense to tweet at a certain time of day. Thank you for this great twitter tip.

    Brian Lawrence
    bmlawr

  124. RE Champ Says:

    Very interesting-Twitter seems very important right now and any knowledge is exceptionally helpfull

  125. Performance Auto Parts Says:

    this is great info . thank you for shareing this with everyone ,it will be verry useful

  126. Invidia performance parts Says:

    Great information, Thank You!!!

  127. Robert M Says:

    Very interesting info! Thank you!

  128. genial Says:

    but what this is all about for?!?!?

  129. pradeepf Says:

    how to use tweetergetter.com
    i gave my email address and then this article appears
    please help me gary…i am following you on tweeter

  130. Olivia Says:

    I gotten hundreds of followers using tweetergetter and am grateful. I am new to this. Very cool! Thank you :)

  131. Dudy Adityawan Says:

    Nice info fren, so now i can optimize my traffic in twitter !!! Success for you fen.. !!!

  132. blogger Says:

    thank you guys, this information very help me for get money

  133. passiveincome Says:

    Extravaganza, get more referrals through twitter. I’m very happy and want to try it out. Thank you for posting.

  134. cheekakan Says:

    Great post, thank you for sharing. I have been studying this myself.

  135. Belinda Smith Says:

    So much to learn about seo and twitter, but so interesting and obviously a powerful marketing tool.

  136. Angel Says:

    I don’t understand it!!

  137. Dyski Says:

    Interesting article. I’m 9 hours ahead and I would have to spend almost the whole night to make it right :) Well that’s something I will not do, everyone need to sleep from time to time. Tweeting should not take our dreams from us! I’m joking :P I mean that tweeting is something that should not be done without head. Inviting everyone to follow a blog could be more harmful than helpful. That is my opinion.

  138. Hamilton Says:

    Great Post. Does this apply to blog posting too?

  139. vinnie Says:

    between 9:00 – 13:00 are the most visited hours.

  140. document shred Says:

    OK so that 2am – 8am Sydeny time. Lucky I’m a night person.

    Great info Gary, keep it up.

  141. mridula singh Says:

    great info on timing, 10 a.m. would be mine. Thanks keep it up..

  142. Ndhelon Says:

    Waw i’ve got too many traficc

  143. naonaoo Says:

    i wish it’ll b good for me ;)

  144. annette taylor Says:

    Great post I am in australia so times are much different.

  145. nelutu Says:

    Thanks for info :)

  146. narudon khawsanit Says:

    Thank you very much.

  147. John Says:

    Great post! I usually link my stories to twitter right after I write them. Now I know it’s best to wait till night time.

  148. cheexa Says:

    i don’t use twitter :( is that wrong?!?!?

  149. Jon Says:

    Nice post, gives some great insight to some marketing stategies

  150. Alun Maxwell Says:

    Thanks for the trouble you took to get these stats, Gary, and theblog is a great resource too. As a ‘UKer’ I’m glad the US spikes around lunchtime as I’m online early evening every day! Keep on keeping on.

  151. Neotericuk Says:

    Awesome post, to get the most traffic out from Twitter you should use good hash tags, they are much beneficial. Though Time Does matters but most of the people search for trending topics and keywords.
    Time of posting links is agood point while getting most out from there.

  152. Janna Soren Says:

    An excellent way to build a twitter following organically. Great post :-)

  153. Lew Says:

    Great! Thanks for the stats! I’ll be adding the website to: Free-Twitter-Tips.com

  154. Gary Says:

    WOW! That’s a lot of traffic from twitter. I think I’ll be sending my blog posts out on twitter during these ‘high times’ from now on.

  155. Ernest O'Dell Says:

    I’ve noticed the same thing. Traffic is up between 10 AM to 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Could be the break times people take at work and the lunch break (and return). It’s been a boon to my business!

    Thanks for the article!

    Ernest O’Dell
    Author, Writer, Public Speaker

  156. matew Says:

    thanks for shared..
    this post is very usefull..

  157. villaolivio Says:

    Intresting!
    Thanks for info

    Jeroen

  158. Forex Trading Says:

    Thank you for this information, it will hopefully help me get more people to my site.

  159. Altax Says:

    Great Post. Thanks for the useful information.

    if you want to know more about timezone difference you can verify here also http://timezoneguide.com

  160. InternetMarketingCoach Says:

    This is what I need.Thanks for sharing.

  161. michael d Says:

    Looks very interesting.
    Will give it a try.

    I just wrote a blog
    that could be used
    as a way of introducing
    mlm, straightline downlines..

  162. suround Says:

    Your article is very interesting, but I found it difficulties to find many followers in twitter.

  163. Rob Says:

    Gary,

    Great post about Twitter. Sometimes I feel like my post go unnoticed. It must have something to do with the time of day.

    Thanks,

    Rob

    Robertchic.com

  164. dondnita Says:

    thank you for this INFO

  165. dondnita Says:

    thanks for the INFO

  166. Knight Drake Says:

    Gracias me sera de gran utilidad

    Thanks I’m trying to get her to follow me.

    Great Post. Thanks

  167. marketiva Says:

    this good post..thank for your information

  168. Dave Says:

    Thanx for the advice

  169. Anthony Says:

    Thanks for the info. Our web design firm has incorporated the twitter web widget into our current homepage, which is flash and html. It easily integrated into our existing website. Everyone is excited about how we can use this as a tool. This can be a big advantage, and if its free…well that’s even better.

  170. Robert Brookes Says:

    Thanks for the information, this will really help

  171. Gai Says:

    Thanks a million for this great info

  172. lalacan Says:

    Awesome, very nice statistics

  173. Free Cell Phone Says:

    nice info, thanks dude..
    keep blogging!!

  174. getwell7 Says:

    that is great but how it works

  175. Joshua konov Says:

    Something new???

  176. cof47 Says:

    Check on plotting

  177. Blog tutorial Says:

    Nice blog

  178. bloggle Says:

    nice graph. thanks for giving us an idea

  179. GARY Says:

    brilliant, cheers

  180. Cashpumper Says:

    I retweeted this, but had to shorten it to get it through. Good work.

  181. kumpulan informasi Says:

    thanks for info

  182. Xyeshu Says:

    Great Post. I had retweeted it. Might help for beginners like me.

  183. Seema Syed Says:

    Great statistics, it shall definitely help many out there. Thanks for info.

  184. ekoprobo Says:

    Really great

  185. Chris Says:

    Happy Holidays and Happy new year !

  186. Texting While Driving Is Worse Than Drunk Driving Says:

    Tweeting at optimum times of the day is a tweet tip that works.
    Thanks Gary.

  187. mary Says:

    great :)

  188. roberta morozova Says:

    I was very helpful in achieving its

  189. atohuang Says:

    Good post,
    keep post new info for us

  190. Nathan Ramsey Says:

    Gary, your link to this article is broken.

    Nathan

  191. Menandro Tomas Says:

    This is great Gary!

    During those hours, how many times should I post in twitter? Or if I wish to utilize the whole day, how many times should I post? Thanks…

  192. Mark Says:

    It looks like mid day central time gets you a little more timely eyeballs.

  193. stacy r Says:

    Thanks for the post. I’ve been looking for this type of info.

  194. Mike Says:

    Thanks Gary…Love the info..!!

  195. LordAtack Says:

    Great post…… great………..

  196. Wynne Says:

    Great post. Your data is consistent with several others that I have researched concerning the best times to tweet in order to maximum responses. I have summarized my findings http://drivingonlinesales.com/?p=362 and linked back to you.

  197. Anna Says:

    Terrific data, thank you for sharing, have linked to you from my blog article about the best time of day and ideal number of tweets per day. VERY impressive traffic you’re getting too by the way! Well done :)

  198. The Padrino Says:

    Now I know the best time to tweet :)
    Thanks for the share bro

  199. Jeff White Says:

    Great article and something that’s not available in Australia.

    I will be retweeting this post.

  200. Adair Says:

    Great post! Have you got any similar reports for 2010? It would be great to see as Twitter has gone from 300,000 tweets per day to (now) 50 million! I’d be interested in whether it has the reverse effect where as there are now more users and it’s more active may mean less exposure as a tweet can easily go unnoticed.

  201. Glen Says:

    Thank you for the “Best Time To Tweet” post. This will be very helpful in scheduling my tweets via twitterfeed @glencumbie (I will auto follow back).. link swap too if interested.

    Thanks again,

    Glen

  202. Swisstoons Says:

    Excellent information! Thanks! And thanks to “How to make…” for clarifying the time zone!

  203. Oil Change Says:

    Im really getting into maximizing twitter for my client at http://www.twitter.com/autoxpressmd and this was one post that helps us push even further with twitter.

    Some people are saying that “twitter will take over email marketing?”

    What do you guys think??

  204. Greg Says:

    This is great infomation. I use Social Oomph to time my tweets so that they hit Twitter at around 10 am or 1pm Pacific Time.

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