These Timezone Tweaks, for when to post on social media, will be very helpful and simplify your social media sharing and scheduling. These suggestions, designed for any social media platform, will ensure that even if you only post twice a day you will be reaching the most people all around the world.
- 8am UK time/12am Pacific Daylight Time.WHY post at 8 am? UK is looking at their phones on the way to work or on their computers before work at home.Los Angeles is up late browsing.Most UK content is posted in the daytime, so you get ahead of the crowd, and if your post does well, it’ll be the first thing the west coast Americans see when they wake up.
8am is 3am Toronto, Canada time
9pm in Wellington, New Zealand4pm in Taipei, Taiwan5pm Sydney, Australia time 12.30pm India9am Germany, Sweden, Italy etc (Central European Time)12 am Pacific Time3am Eastern Time2am Ukraine
- 4pm UK time/8am pacific.
WHY post at 4pm? 4pm UK time was largely found to be the time UK people spend on social media, so a good time slot in the UK, and you catch the west coast of the USA on their way to workThat's 11am Toronto, Canada10 am in Houston, Texas3am in Sydney, Australia.6pm Ukraine12 am Taipei
5pm Germany (Central European Time)
8.30pm India
- 8pm UK time/12pm pacific.WHY post at 8 pm? Possibly the most important time slot of the day to post on social media as it is a hyper active time slots in both territories. (UK and USA) There is a lot of competition for this time slot with other posts, and UK people aren’t online as much, but if you nail all three timeslots you’re winning.That's 7am Sydney, Australia3pm in Toronto, Canada4am Taipei, Taiwan9am Auckland, New Zealand3pm Washington, USA
9pm Germany, Sweden, etc. (Central European Time)10pm Ukraine
Let's get personal
So for me in Sydney Australia I should be posting at 5pm, 3am and 7am my time.
What about you?
If you are in Central European Time that's Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, CzechRepublic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland 9am, 5pm and 9pm are your best posting times if you are trying to be seen by UK and US readers.If you are in Toronto and Ontario Canada and New York it's 3am, 11am and 3pm.
If you are in Central Time that's Alabama, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, it's 2am, 6am and 2pm.
If you are in China, Macao, Taipei, Taiwan it's 4pm, 12am and 4am.
If you are in Eastern European Time that's Finland, Jordan, Greece, Latvia, Russia, Romania, Ukraine it's 2am, 6pm and 10pm.
If you are in Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, Yukon and Baja California it's 12 am, 8am and 12pm.
This is so helpful, Lee! I read it when you posted it, but should've left a comment then!
ReplyDeleteThanks Carrie, glad you found it helpful. I think anything we can do to optimize all the time we spend on social media as a blogger is good.
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