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Dasen Thathiah engagement report

@DasenThathiah - 120K followers on X

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026.

Engagement

Top 10% for its size
Per follower
1.57%
of 120K followers
Per impression
2.61%
72K views on a typical post
Reach
60.0%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.9K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.074%
53 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.9/day
active 67% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 1.9K interactions against 120K followers, an engagement rate of 1.57%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 94% of 21,398 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 72K times each, and 2.61% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 59.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 58% carry an image or video and 11% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10.0K interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #enca, #fanniemasemola.

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026. Recurring tags: #enca, #fanniemasemola.

Compared with accounts its own size

Dasen Thathiah's engagement rate beats 94% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,398 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.

On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 69% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 1.57%, Dasen Thathiah sits above the 75th percentile of the 214,194 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the top 25% band, which runs 0.701% to 2.62%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.147%
p750.701%
p902.62%
p9982.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 214,194 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,396 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.147%
75th percentile0.701%
90th percentile2.62%
99th percentile82.9%

This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built

Posting timing

This account posts most often around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 18:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video58% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 58% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 406 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • May 8, 20265.3x their median

    Speaking at the funeral of fallen officer Captain Louis Nel, Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi makes a promise to find his killers “dead or alive.” @eNCA https://t.co/1LUoHMugM4

    7.8K1.8K27988978K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 20264.1x their median

    [WATCH] #FannieMasemola “I want to thank everyone who prayed for me…. I am eager to get back to work” #eNCA https://t.co/3eHDrJKEw2

    6.4K1.2K14876288K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 20263.8x their median

    BREAKING NEWS | A senior @SAPoliceService official has been linked to the brutal rape of a teenager in Johannesburg. It’s believed he had plied the schoolgirl with alcohol before forcing himself on her at a hotel earlier this year. The officer has now been arrested at an upmarket strip club, in full view of patrons. Details only on @eNCA.

    4.8K1.8K331273686K viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 20262.6x their median

    Trying to kill an STF member after murdering two other police officers is a quick way to secure chauffeur-driven, air-conditioned, state-sponsored transport and accommodation. https://t.co/N1yS7n6USz

    4.1K65314521114K viewsView on X
  • Sep 23, 20262.6x their median

    BREAKING NEWS | Fourteen people have been shot - with at least eleven dead - in KwaMakhutha, Durban. All the victims - including a pregnant woman - were together at a house in Ziko area before 11pm, when gunmen rushed in and opened fire. KwaMakhutha SAPS and the eThekwini District Tracing Team are at the scene. It is likely the matter will be escalated to a provincial unit this morning due to the seriousness of the crime, and the urgency to locate the killers. More details exclusively on @eNCA #DStv403 at 6am.

    3.0K1.2K455240353K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 20262.1x their median

    BREAKING: Suspended Deputy EMPD Commissioner Julius Mkhwanazi has been fired. Julius Mkhwanazi has been suspended for 10 months, since November 11 of last year. Will have more from the ground shortly on @eNCA

    2.8K821151104242K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 20261.8x their median

    KZN police have confirmed the seizure of police minister Senzo Mchunu’s devices. This is in relation to cases of defeating the ends of justice and fraud registered last year.  The search and seizure order was granted by the Johannesburg High Court to members of the provincial Serious and Violent Crimes unit.  The matters are currently under investigation. @eNCA

    2.5K6391064272K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 20261.5x their median

    NOW: The state says its aware of reported escape attempts involving the Lieutenant-General, which serves as the basis for their formal request to relocate him to Kgosi Mampuru prison. Matter postponed to 29 Sept. @eNCA

    2.1K540123105128K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 2026

    From dockets, to dokhuments, to the dock. I’m sure there is someone, somewhere saying “it’s unfair.” @pule_jones

    2.1K3621413393K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 2026

    Today’s Facebook memory. We thought we knew how bad it was then - only to realise it’s actually much worse. @pule_jones https://t.co/3FhK1Sdxae

    1.9K29418222K viewsView on X

Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.

Recurring topics

#enca#fanniemasemola

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 1.9K interactions against 120K followers, an engagement rate of 1.57%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 94% of 21,398 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 72K times each, and 2.61% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 59.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 58% carry an image or video and 11% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10.0K interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #enca, #fanniemasemola.

What is Dasen Thathiah's engagement rate on X?
Dasen Thathiah (@DasenThathiah) has an engagement rate of 1.57%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 119,634 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 1.57%, Dasen Thathiah sits above the 75th percentile of the 214,194 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
Does @DasenThathiah have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 94% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,398 accounts), which puts it in the top 10% for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
When does @DasenThathiah post?
Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.9 posts per day across the measured window.

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