as of now, i have 30 tweets since day 1. i thought i was doing well. my fingers were fast, my tweets furious. surely i was at my tweeting best? i was dead wrong.
things move a lot quicker on the internet.
i got a shock in class today when ms kwa told me i haven’t been tweeting as much as i should. but then i went to take a look and i realised she was right! there i was, looking at the many @veratanpr, @colourrun and of course the ever-present @omgzam and i realised that @hazwanhazwan was nowhere to be seen.
so, i went to click on @hazwanhazwan, just to make me feel better.
after i felt better, i asked myself, “how can i be more visible on twitter?” then, an idea struck me. no, no. let me rephrase that. the word ‘idea’ doesn’t do it justice. i had an epiphany.
to make myself more visible, i have to tweet when there is maximum traffic on twitter! this gives my tweets the best chance of being seen by my followers. so… when is traffic on twitter actually at its peak?
only google knows.
the table below is from the first result on google: http://www.garymccaffrey.com/blog/2009/03/19/when-is-the-best-time-to-tweet-for-maximum-twitter-traffic-and-exposure/
Fig 1.1 Time of day : Visitors on GaryMccaffrey.com
so basically, Mr Mccaffrey used his Twitter to drive traffic to his website. smart dude. no wonder he has his own domain and i don’t. anyway, this was what he had to say.
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.
alright then! i shall take his expert advice and tweet about this blog post tomorrow and see if my blog gets higher traffic. the previous post got 16 (thank you to all those who read it!). i know that’s not much to be proud about, but i’m slowly getting there.
watch out, celebrity bloggers!
