13
Dec
Choosing the correct time to blog and tweet
I used to post tweets and blog posts as soon as they were ready, as soon as I had something to share.
But lately I’ve figured out that choosing a time and date to put your content out there could be crucial. Also, with the help of very easy to use tools for tweeting and blogging, I believe choosing a correct time has become really easy.
Some studies show that posts on Facebook are more often shared between 9.00 AM and 10.00 AM. Also, it seems like there are more chances of your message to be re-tweeted in the early afternoon, from 1.00 PM to 3.00 PM.
As far as blogs, posting in a given time is something you can do from the publishing options of any blogging software such as WordPress. The correct time for posting your blog is a bit less important than the correct time for tweeting and Facebook. This is because your blog post will be there for a long time, obviously unless you have some incredible news you want to share with the world as soon as possible.
Your tweets and posts on Facebook are the ones you should pay more attention to, even because you might want to share here a link to you blog posts.
There are several tools that make scheduling your tweets easy, such as Tweet-U-Later.
But the one I have found very efficient is HootSuite, which makes you schedule twitter tweets, Facebook and LinkedIn posts at the same time at a give time and date. You can also see your pending posts and post links when visiting web pages with the Firefox or Chrome add-on.
