Twitter With Full URLs

When twittering, or otherwise posting a URL online, putting the http://www prefix on the web address will automatically be recognized as a URL and be made a link by various systems (e.g., Google's spiders, twitter's web interface, tweetie, etc.).

Facebook, for instance, automatically recognizes a full URL and makes it a link almost everywhere, and includes the page description and image in messages and wall posts. You can customize the default image, title and description that Facebook sharing uses too.

Popular Blog Posts Are Made Tues - Fri 10am - 2pm PT

Posting to a blog at different times affects the popularity of the post. Bookmarking that post at different times also impacts its popularity. There may be a "blog-cycle," like a news-cycle, for making blog posts popular.

According to some research, Thursday early afternoon and early evening may be the best times to seed blog posts into social bookmarking and social media sites. Others say that between 1pm and 3pm PST (after lunch) or between 5pm and 7pm PST (after work) are the best times and Thursday is the best day.