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News24 🇿🇦 engagement report

@News24 - 6.6M followers on X

Measured over 802 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0%
of 6.6M followers
Per impression
0.121%
12K views on a typical post
Reach
0.19%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
15
interactions (median)
Saved
0.008%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
26.9/day
active 103% of days
Peak time
07:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 15 interactions against 6.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Posts are seen about 12K times each, and 0.121% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.187% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 26.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 802 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.3K interactions, about 429x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #beatthescam, #backtgrsa, #grcup.

Measured over 802 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #beatthescam, #backtgrsa, #grcup.

Where this sits in the catalog

At under 0.001%, News24 🇿🇦 sits below the 10th percentile of the 211,975 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 211,975 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,461 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 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 07:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 07:00 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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 video7% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link97% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 7% 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.
  • 97% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 115 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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 28, 2026429x their median

    Six months later, and still no recruitment of 10 000 labour inspectors promised at SONA https://t.co/uoAL5PX5wI

    5.0K2.0K172121167K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 2026314x their median

    Eastern Cape farmer who lured women to remote farm found guilty of rape, trafficking https://t.co/JUaW2lnU7o

    2.9K1.8K294280701K viewsView on X
  • Sep 26, 2026217x their median

    Two years and counting: NPA yet to decide on prosecuting Ntshavheni’s R2.5m corruption case https://t.co/2C79AI9YCh

    2.4K1.0K184108129K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 2026213x their median

    KZN man working on US farm gets 12 years in jail for child sexual abuse material https://t.co/RCiZtwRSD2

    2.2K976261191182K viewsView on X
  • Oct 10, 2026187x their median

    Presidency loses clean audit over R1.7m groceries bought without public tender https://t.co/WEAPz4dH6Y

    2.3K685126101201K viewsView on X
  • Oct 14, 2026184x their median

    Mbalula to face the music in Parliament over role in Prasa ‘corruption’ https://t.co/30EbIXbP7N

    2.4K5811206385K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 2026157x their median

    Afrikaner ‘refugee’ family who came back to SA for healthcare can’t return to US https://t.co/wcnGtE6ho0

    1.6K480273285585K viewsView on X
  • Sep 13, 2026152x their median

    Aussie pensioner loses R2m after falling in love with AI deepfake ‘nurse’ from SA https://t.co/Fg0XmEPMaN

    1.7K502193216228K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 2026151x their median

    Mothibi orders lifestyle audits for IDAC investigators, prosecutors – and NPA bosses https://t.co/M8Gu90Ep77

    1.9K550492675K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 2026145x their median

    R1.8bn firefighting contract awarded to company with no experience fighting fires https://t.co/dr4NuwaQLg

    1.5K705119148315K 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

#beatthescam#backtgrsa#grcup#acdirect#development

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 15 interactions against 6.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Posts are seen about 12K times each, and 0.121% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.187% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 26.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 802 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.3K interactions, about 429x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #beatthescam, #backtgrsa, #grcup.

What is News24 🇿🇦's engagement rate on X?
News24 🇿🇦 (@News24) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 802 original posts from the last 30 days against 6,636,796 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At under 0.001%, News24 🇿🇦 sits below the 10th percentile of the 211,975 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 @News24 have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @News24 post?
Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 26.9 posts per day across the measured window.

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