Herman Mashaba engagement report
@HermanMashaba - 796K followers on X
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 93 interactions against 796K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 36% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 7.0K times each, and 1.33% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.879% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video and 18% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.0K interactions, about 86x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #5moreyears, #actionsamanifestolaunch, #letactionlead.
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #5moreyears, #actionsamanifestolaunch, #letactionlead.
Compared with accounts its own size
Herman Mashaba's engagement rate beats 36% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 55% 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 0.012%, Herman Mashaba sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,270 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.695% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 83.1% |
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 10:00 UTC, and Sunday 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 89% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 18% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 89% 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.
- 18% 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 545 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
- Aug 29, 202686x their median
Who would’ve thought that one day the people will start rejecting the beloved ANC. The Premier of Free State rejected whilst doing Door To Door 😭 https://t.co/JNvZwumOBh
- Aug 23, 202666x their median
This is the young South African whose identity was stolen by Chidimma Adetshina's mother for the benefit of Chidimma. To all South African supporters of Chidimma, this is your fellow South African that you are supposed to be supporting instead of supporting fraudster Chidimma https://t.co/H0j7LVF5Rl
- Aug 23, 202658x their median
This is a WhatsApp group between Kgoši Maepa and ANC big wigs plotting to destroy Dr Nasiphi Moyo by falsely accusing her of corruption regarding using services of a contractor for her swimming pool. They appear determined to destroy a hard-working Black woman for political gain. When Mayor Nasiphi Moya delivers services, improves Tshwane and puts residents first they call it “abuse” and flood social media with Lies unsubstantiated allegations and propaganda. This isn’t about accountability. It is about votes, tenders and political survival. They will do anything to discredit the best Mayor Tshwane has ever had even when the facts don’t support their claims. Leave Nasiphi alone!
- Aug 30, 202632x their median
Mlungu is on the street of Cape Town and asking relevant questions that even EFF can't even ask https://t.co/pRRu0qk90h
- Sep 8, 202622x their median
Who should be Ekurhuleni Mayor 🤔 https://t.co/KtKH5PhovC
- Jun 12, 202524x their median
Every morning until the local elections I will post the track record of ActionSA leaders like Nasiphi Moya, Herman Mashaba & Athol Trollip in fixing broken municipalities. I do this to show that ActionSA is the proven alternative to broken municipalities led by failed parties. https://t.co/PveDtzdP3A
- Sep 26, 202615x their median
Immigration is a national government responsibility, but that does not mean we look the other way when we encounter illegal immigration in our city. Working with Home Affairs and other law-enforcement authorities, more than 1,400 undocumented foreign nationals have been arrested during operations in Tshwane. #ActionSAManifestoLaunch
- Sep 9, 20268.9x their median
I need less than 2 minutes to tell you why you should Vote Mashaba for Mayor! Give that man a clear mandate come 4 November. As a fellow Joburg resident, I guarantee you, you won’t be sorry. https://t.co/T8L155F4xH
- May 22, 20238.3x their median
[WARNING STRONG LANGUAGE] Angry #Hammanskraal residents ambush two cars transporting Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink at the Jubilee District Hospital where a #CholeraOutbreak has been reported. They accuse the Tshwane municipality of ignoring their concerns the state of water here https://t.co/8A96yjxKkI
- Aug 22, 20266.3x their median
I sat down in a conversation with @pieterkrielorg on his podcast, In the Cross Fire with Pierre Kriel, and I must say this is a must-watch because, oh my goodness, it was unfiltered and robust on my politics, immigration and my Joburg Mayoral race. #OperationFixJoburg #UnfinishedBusiness
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
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 93 interactions against 796K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 36% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 7.0K times each, and 1.33% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.879% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video and 18% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.0K interactions, about 86x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #5moreyears, #actionsamanifestolaunch, #letactionlead.
- What is Herman Mashaba's engagement rate on X?
- Herman Mashaba (@HermanMashaba) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 796,429 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.012%, Herman Mashaba sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,270 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 @HermanMashaba have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 36% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @HermanMashaba post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 6.97 posts per day across the measured window.