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imwithkanye: What are the best times to post to your favorite…



imwithkanye:

What are the best times to post to your favorite social media platforms? Bitly crunched the numbers and here’s what they found:

Twitter

  • Post 9am-3pm ET, Monday through Thursday
  • Especially post 1-3pm ET, Monday through Thursday
  • Avoid posting after 8pm ET during the weekends
  • Avoid posting after 3pm ET on Friday and at all on weekends

Facebook

  • Post 1-4pm ET during the week
  • Especially post midweek 1-3pm ET
  • The very best time is Wednesday at 3pm ET
  • Avoid posting between 8pm ET and 8am ET during the week
  • Avoid posting on weekends

Tumblr (graphic posted above)

  • Post from 4pm ET onward
  • Especially post from 7pm-10pm ET onward, with Monday and Tuesdays being good
  • Post on Friday evenings

(Sounds about right. Tumblr’s popularity in the evening supports my assessment that everyone likes to live-blog TV.)

"This asking for attention is completely legitimate, but in practice, there are powerful forces…"

“This asking for attention is completely legitimate, but in practice, there are powerful forces pressuring us to avoid any kind of self-promotion at all, or enjoy our good fortune openly. Given all these complications, it would appear that only one person so far has figured out how to use Twitter entirely blamelessly: the British comic and TV presenter Simon Amstell; he has around 35,000 followers, but hasn’t ever tweeted, not even once.”

Maria Bustillos on Why Can’t We Brag On Twitter? (via thisistheverge)

thisistheverge: Your long read of the day: Twitter, the Startup…



thisistheverge:

Your long read of the day: Twitter, the Startup That Wouldn’t Die – Businessweek

Throughout its first five years of existence, Twitter always seemed on the verge of committing some excruciating form of startup seppuku. There were constant service outages (epitomized by the ubiquitous “fail whale” cartoon message), an embarrassing security breach in 2009 that released a torrent of internal documents, and nonstop departures of key employees. The pièce de résistance was the turmoil at the top: Twitter had three chief executive officers in as many years. That drama culminated with the promotion of serial entrepreneur and former Google executive Dick Costolo as CEO in 2010 and the return last year of one of Twitter’s founders, Jack Dorsey, as executive chairman and product chief.