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SABCNews_MorningLive engagement report

@MorningLiveSABC - 340K followers on X

Measured over 51 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 9, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.002%
of 340K followers
Per impression
0.661%
907 views on a typical post
Reach
0.27%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
6
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.97/day
active 13% of days
Peak time
04:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 340K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 51 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 907 times each, and 0.661% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.267% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 51 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 6% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 270 interactions, about 45x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #morninglive, #sabcnews, #morninglivesabc.

Measured over 51 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 9, 2026. Recurring tags: #morninglive, #sabcnews, #morninglivesabc.

Compared with accounts its own size

SABCNews_MorningLive's engagement rate beats 16% 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 37% 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 0.002%, SABCNews_MorningLive sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,078 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.694%
p902.61%
p9983.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,078 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,460 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 percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.694%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile83.1%

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 04:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 04:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 04:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video92% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link4% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 92% 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.
  • 4% 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 225 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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

  • Oct 9, 202645x their median

    [QUESTION OF THE DAY] What did you make of violent protests in Durban and Soweto yesterday? #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/RSFAKOQCc0

    26722896.7K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 202615x their median

    [QUESTION OF THE DAY] What stood out to you from retired Hawks head Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya’s Madlanga Commission testimony yesterday? #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/FeAJMooq6l

    1636462.8K viewsView on X
  • Oct 9, 20269.0x their median

    [BREAKING NEWS] The Director-General of the Department of Home Affairs has withdrawn the directive that had been issued by his office on 28 September regarding the intake of asylum seeker applications following the judgement of the Constitutional Court on 7 July. #SABCNews https://t.co/98zpJdLEf6

    16102442.1K viewsView on X
  • Oct 9, 20266.0x their median

    Former Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department head Julius Mkhwanazi is expected back in the Germiston Magistrate's Court today in connection with the alleged unlawful fitting of blue lights to private security vehicles. #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/29jIqbmQMd

    2511002.4K viewsView on X
  • Oct 9, 20265.0x their median

    [QUESTION OF THE DAY FOR SPORT] What is your message of support for the Proteas as they take on Australia in a Test in Durban and Banyana Banyana who face Madagascar in an Olympic Games qualifier in Bloemfontein? #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/OwzEzIknB8

    1041511.1K viewsView on X
  • Oct 9, 20264.7x their median

    Former City Manager Imogen Mashazi is expected back in Germiston Magistrates Court in a corruption and fraud case. She will appear, alongside Kemi Behari and Linda Gxasheka, facing charges of fraud, corruption and defeating the ends of justice. #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/s60TzYe06R

    196211.8K viewsView on X
  • Oct 9, 20264.2x their median

    Three children aged two, five and seven and an adult have died following a shack fire in Marathon Informal Settlement in Germiston in Ekurhuleni last night. A total of TWELVE shacks were burnt to the ground. #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/LoWIxCor41

    1310201.3K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 20263.3x their median

    [QUESTION OF THE DAY] What more must be done to tackle the scourge of gender-based violence after five women were killed in Kempton Park? #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/F5n2fFfRIl

    41150434 viewsView on X
  • Oct 9, 20262.8x their median

    Acting National Police Commissioner Puleng Dimpane says provincial commissioners have met to discuss the police's response to the ongoing violent protests across the country. #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/Knhwp58gkx

    63621.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 20262.8x their median

    [SPORT QUESTION] What do you make of the power struggle in world football and SAFA President Danny Jordaan's support of embattled FIFA President Gianni Infantino? #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/z3p4tzKcRO

    5561536 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

#morninglive#sabcnews#morninglivesabc#morninlive#partyvspromise

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 6 interactions against 340K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 51 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 907 times each, and 0.661% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.267% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 51 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 6% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 270 interactions, about 45x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #morninglive, #sabcnews, #morninglivesabc.

What is SABCNews_MorningLive's engagement rate on X?
SABCNews_MorningLive (@MorningLiveSABC) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 51 original posts from the last 30 days against 339,544 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, SABCNews_MorningLive sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,078 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 @MorningLiveSABC have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @MorningLiveSABC post?
Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.97 posts per day across the measured window.

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