When do you post and why?

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Bill Wren

This is a quick little post that is primarily questions. For instance, if you schedule your blog posts, when do you schedule them for?

I ask this because I’m in the Atlantic time zone. Many people are in the Eastern time zone and many in the other zones all the way to the Pacific. Of course, the internet being global, there are many more time zones.

If you monitor things like Twitter and Facebook, you see activity related to those time zones. As an example, I know many people in the west and I can see, around noon my time, activity firing up out there because it’s about 8:00 am in the Pacific time zone.

So when do you find is the best time to schedule your posts? Does it even matter? If you schedule for the west, do you miss the potential of the east and vice versa?

It seems a niggly thing to wonder about, at least to me, but it could be a significant factor depending on what you are posting, why you are posting and who you believe your audience to be.

Is there a best time?

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Writer, editor, social media practitioner and observer of how and where people connect and engage online.
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  • http://broadcasting-brain.com Mark Dykeman

    I've been trying to schedule my posts for 7 AM Atlantic (6 AM EST) lately. I'm still not sure that there's any “good” or “best” time, but I notice that some people are picking up my stuff around that time.

  • http://writelife.net/ Bill Wren – Writelife

    That's more or less what I do, though it does vary a lot. I wonder, though, because I have a lot of friends etc. out west and as far as Twitter and Facebook go, I suspect they don't see them. I miss a huge number of their posts, tweets etc. simply because there is such a huge number that come in early evening and overnight (not those times for them, however) I miss them. 4:00 their time is 8:00 for me and I'm eating, walking the dog, doing dishes … living in the “real” world. :-)

  • http://writelife.net/ Bill Wren – Writelife

    That's more or less what I do, though it does vary a lot. I wonder, though, because I have a lot of friends etc. out west and as far as Twitter and Facebook go, I suspect they don't see them. I miss a huge number of their posts, tweets etc. simply because there is such a huge number that come in early evening and overnight (not those times for them, however) I miss them. 4:00 their time is 8:00 for me and I'm eating, walking the dog, doing dishes … living in the “real” world. :-)