By: @Garin Kilpatrick
Leveraging timing on Twitter is a great way to increase your reach and get more traffic from Twitter to your website.
The better your timing on your tweets the more retweets you will get, which will also help you get more Twitter followers.
Scheduling your tweets with a Twitter Tool like Hootsuite gives you complete control over when your content goes out, or the option to auto-schedule content automatically without having to specify a time..
Another tool called buffer is a great way to space your tweets out automatically at times that you have specified prior.
Buffer co-founder Leo recently published the findings of some very interesting data from their userbase:
“People that start to Buffer their Tweets increased clicks on links they posted by 200% within 2 weeks of using. The amount of retweets doubles on average. Finally Buffer users increase their follower count by 104 followers within 3 weeks on average.” – the study concluded.
The social media scientist Dan Zarrella has studied tweet timing and determined that tweets later in the day and later in the week are the most retweetable so you should share your best content around these times for maximum reach.
Kiss Metrics visualized Dan’s data about twitter timing into the infographic below:
Another important thing to take into consideration is the time zone of your followers. If you are in North America and following mostly other North Americans you should consider the density of people in different time zones when timing your tweets.
Clearly the Eastern Time zone has the most people living in it so lining up a few tweets near the 5PM EST peak time is a good call.
Twitter is based in San Francisco and many people use Twitter in the PST so if you are in the EST like I am right now it’s a good idea to line up some tweets until 8PM EST so that you hit the 5PM peak time for those living in the Pacific time zone.
Sysomos analyzed 20 million tweets and published some interesting Twitter stats, including the graph below showing that tweeting activity is busier during the week than it is on weekends:
Based on my own experience I have noticed that I get many more retweets during the week, and it seems to me that many people take a break from their regular tweeting routines on the weekends.
The data visualization company lemon.ly came recently designed an infographic with some cool twitter timing stats that might give you some more insight into the art and science of Twitter timing.
The main takeaway from this post is that you can have more influence and achieve more clicks if you space your tweets out so that more people see them and less people unfollow you.
Flooding your followers with a bunch of tweets at once will piss some people off, but tweeting is a good thing so don’t feel like you absolutely must schedule every single tweet you send.
Twitter is based on the question what are you doing? after all, so send live tweets and make your tweets feel real.
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Hi, Thanks a lot for the amazing article. Would you please inform me, how can i know the best posting time if my target is to reach Arab Audience and more specifically Saudi?
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The best time to tweet to the Saudi Arabians would be at 5pm on Tuesdays in Saudistan.
Hi, Thanks a lot for the amazing article. Would you please informme, how can i know the best posting time if my target is to reach ArabAudience and more specifically Saudi?Thanks in advance for your Answer
The best time to tweet to the Saudi Arabians would be at 5pm on Tuesdays in the Saudistani timezone. You can find when that is relative to your timezone at many websites on the internet.
That’s wonderful to follow the perfect timing to tweet with the right guide here. I am not sure if this would work with my busy work schedule. I hope this timing tip is practical.
Great site, a ton of useful information! I have found using buffer combined with the tweriod plug-in is far more effective than Hootsuite's Auto Schedule, but Hootsuite allows you to schedule far more tweets… swings & roundabouts really.. so I just use both! Hannah – http://www.hjjewellery.co.uk
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Its true that if you know the perfect timing of tweeting for your audience then you will get huge traffic and re tweet, mostly it depends on your niche which kind of users are you targeting..
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