In my last post I mentioned that it would be good for marketers to plan to avoid troublesome dates for Twitter outreach. In an effort to expand upon this concept I’m going to compile a list of dates when the crowd thinks Twitter will be unreliable. Towards that end, I’m going to ask you my readers to contribute to a list which I will curate and make available to everyone with predicted Twitter Twoubles. I’ll get the ball rolling with the following dates:
(Please leave comments with new dates and I’ll update the table as we go.)
Twitter High Traffic Predictions
|
Date |
Cause |
Expected to Repeat? |
|
Jan 6-9, 2011 |
CES- Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas |
Yes January – Annual |
|
February 6, 2011 |
NFL Super Bowl |
Yes February- Annual, Sunday |
|
Mar, 10-15, 2011 |
SXSW Interactive (South by Southwest Trade Show) |
Yes March- Annual |
|
May 26, 2010 |
American Idol Finale |
Yes, late May – Annual |
|
June 11- July 11, 2010 |
World Cup Soccer |
Quadrennial- Next 2014 |
|
June 7-11, 2010 |
WWDC- Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference |
Yes May/June – Annual |
|
October 14-16, 2010 |
Blog World & New Media Expo |
Yes, October – Annual |
|
October 27- Nov 4, 2010 |
Baseball World Series |
Yes October- Annual Not always 7 games. |
|
November 2, 2010 |
US Election Day |
Annual but worse every 4 years during presidential elections- next 2012. |
I’ll be turning this into a living document that you can bookmark and check whenever you are planning a Twitter marketing plan. If we crowd source this I’m sure that we can make it work and be a useful tool for all Twitter Marketers.
When do you expect Twitter to encounter twoubles? Leave your comments below.
Related Reasons:
4 responses so far ↓
1 Adam Broitman // Aug 3, 2010 at 8:30 am
There is no precedent here, but I think that at xmas time 2010, Twitter will simply implode due to the twitpocalyspe and the second coming of the fail whale.
Just sayin.
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3 Chris Kieff // Aug 3, 2010 at 10:10 am
Adam,
There was an outage last Christmas Eve, so I was looking at it as a possibility. However, I don’t think many companies in the Western world would plan a major push for 12/24-25, but I could be wrong.
Anyone else think Christmas is a time for the Fail Whale to fly?
4 Nicole (SAHM Reviews) // Aug 4, 2010 at 12:57 am
BlogHer is one to consider… Not only are various tweets rolling out from the conference, but many from those participating from at home as well.
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