By the numbers - Best day and time of week to send those must-see tweets!
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INTRO:
June 2009; In this nine-page report, HubSpot, creators of the Twitter Grader (http://Twitter.Grader.com) spill the collective beans from information gathered on over 4.5 million users of Twitter Grader in their annual State of the Twittersphere. This "by-the-numbers" view, is sure to be helpful those who want to really improve presence and best leverage the use of Twitter.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
- Data gathered showed that Tweet volumes spike between 9am -10am, 3pm-5pm, and 11pm-12pm.
- The most activity occurs at 11pm. Unfortunately the data does not provide a timezone (can we assume Eastern?)
- USA regular business hours, from Tuesday to Friday are the most popular times to Tweet.
- Days of the week, ranked by highest to lowest number of tweets:
- Thursday
- Friday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Sunday
- Monday
- Saturday
