Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Birthday Posts

You know how on your b-day, you typically get a ton of Birthday wishes on Facebook?
Well, I was curious if there was a pattern to this madness so I graphed the distribution of facebook birthday messages for each hour on the day of my birthday (by percentage).

There appears to be two peaks around 2PM and 9PM. I wonder if that is suggestive of the times when most people check their facebook.

3 comments:

  1. Interesting...my birthday is today! I did get 6 posts between 9PM and 10PM, but the next hottest time was between 12AM and 1AM at the beginning of the day.

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  2. did you adjust for time zone differences?

    /nerd

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  3. That's awesome Mia, I wonder if that says something about our friends :P

    Good point Alisa, while most of the responses originated on the East Coast, I did adjust for the time zone differences of those that didn't

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