I might have a small obsession with punchcard graphs lately. I built them for my bash history and posts on this site.. I recently downloaded my twitter archive, so I decided to build some punch card graphs with that.

All Tweets

alltweets

I figured that this would be a good way to see if there was a difference between when I retweet vs when I tweet my own content.

Retweets

retweets

Original Tweets

tweets

The trends I see are that I’m more likely to retweet during the day and late at night. Tuesday is also my preferred retweeting day, while Wednesday is the day I say the most original things.