The present invention discloses a real-time and time-distributed information recommendation system, method and apparatus. Specifically, when first clients of the information recommendation system running on first terminal devices access and operate on pieces of information, influence values of the pieces of information on friend clients of the first clients are calculated, accumulated and recorded in a database based on fried intimacy and types of the operations at the times the pieces of information are accessed and operated on. As such, the influence values of the pieces of information on friend clients are updated over time and in real-time. The speed and efficiency of processes for recommending information to the friend clients, when requested, are thus improved.