Need Wednesday by 8:30pm EST Discussion: Online Analytics

I am very active on Twitter and have been since 2012. I used my personal account for this activity since it’s the one I am most active on rather than my “professional” one where I share industry-related articles (follow my professional account if you want to connect:  @TASouders ). I “grew up” on Twitter as weird as that sounds. So, with having this account for so long, I have more tweets and followers than a regular user. In no way am I a popular account, but I love Twitter and spend so much time on it every day. I don’t disagree with any of the numbers here, though it is a little embarrassing! 

The analytics that came from Twitonomy didn’t really surprise me, but it was definitely interesting to look at. One of the things I was interested in was the days of the week that I tweet most and the hours of the day I do tweet. The days of the week showed that I don’t particularly tweet more or less on a specific day. Since I use Twitter daily, the curve is flattened because there’s not a specific day I tweet more. It was surprising to see Tuesday’s are at 16.5%, which is the most out of the days of the week. The only reason I think this would make sense is that I usually relax on Tuesday’s and take a break from schoolwork. 

The hours of the day chart is actually quite funny to look at. Just looking at these analytics you can tell I am not a morning person! I feel like these results aren’t shocking because I am most active after my workday is done which is usually around 4 pm. A reason for this is because that’s when the people I follow are most active as well. I try to stay off social media while I am working on schoolwork so the time between 10 am to 3 pm being low makes sense. 

The last chart I looked at was my tweet history over the months. I was curious because of the large spike in between January and February but after scrolling over the peak, I saw that it was my birthday that day. I had a total of 89 tweets that day which then makes me wonder if it includes retweets as well in that number because I like retweeting pictures that people post of me for my birthday to share with others. Another spike was in March because one of my favorite artists released his second album and I was really active that week to help promote it and get his attention. This day was specifically March 13th-14th and I had 74 tweets from those days combined.Source for Twitonomy:  https://www.twitonomy.com/profile.php