Me, me, me: Twitter narcissists disappear at lunchtime 2
Posted on
April 08, 2009 by
Malcolm Coles
You can use Twist to spot patterns at Twitter. This graph shows that the %age of tweets containing 'I' follows a similar pattern each day - peeking at around 30% at 6am, and falling to a daily low of 20% at 12am. Narcisssists get up early, and get it all out their system by lunchtime ...
%age of tweets containing 'I' over last 7 days
NB These charts are dynamic, so if you're looking at this in a couple of years' time maybe they'll show something different ...
I used Twist to show that retweeting peaks at 4pm and that 4.01pm is the best time to tweet.
Interesting indeed. But notice how the same trend applies to the words LOVE and YOU. And what does that tell us?! Maybe its the lovers that are out in force. A much nicer story me thinks!
Alexia
"I" find this very interesting. Especially the best time to tweet is 4:01, is this the time most people leave their office ? Or just the time that they decide it is time to put in a day's work b4 going home. I (there I go again :O) wonder how many "professional" tweeters there are now whose work day ends at 4:00. In the auto insurance sector my guess is quite a few. Golf is also a topic brings out its share of twitter spam.