What is a good time to tweet? I have spent a lot of time looking at this issue lately, as I try to optimize this process for my own tweets. The answer is not always apparent.

I live in the Central Time zone in the United States. So, I have a several time zones behind me, and one if front, just to be able to tweet with people in the United States. This does not count my friends in Ireland, Scotland, England, etc.

My research is a bit unscientific at this point, but I have a good following for test cases. At last look, I tweet to around 4800 followers. What I have found is that I have the best luck between 11a to 5p CDST.

This is not to say that people don’t tweet later in the day, or earlier. I just seem to get the best responses during these hours. I do know that my tweets late in the day tend to be better recieved when they are on personal type issues, things going on in my life, etc.

This is not a surprise: business gets done during business hours. Tweeting for business purposes tends to follow this plan. Bear that in mind as you are looking at the best times to tweet for your business.

We’ll talk again soon,
Ray Province

Ray Province is an IT programmer in the healthcare industry, and owner of Celtic Ozark Solutions, and IT company that specialized in website design, social media integration, and SEO. You can reach him at celticozarksolutions@gmail.com or @celticozarkian on Twitter.

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