Newzroom Afrika engagement report
@Newzroom405 - 949K followers on X
Measured over 86 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 18, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 949K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 86 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% 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 3.8K times each, and 0.223% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.401% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 86 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 52% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 300x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #newzroom405, #weekendreport, #madlangacommission.
Measured over 86 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 18, 2026. Recurring tags: #newzroom405, #weekendreport, #madlangacommission.
Compared with accounts its own size
Newzroom Afrika's engagement rate beats 11% 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 16% 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 0.001%, Newzroom Afrika sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,349 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 | 0.696% |
| 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 09:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 91% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 52% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 91% 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.
- 52% 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 280 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
- Sep 5, 2026300x their median
[WATCH] ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe to a Freedom Park resident: "Do your grandchildren get a child support grant?" Resident: "Yes" Mantashe: "Who is giving them that?" https://t.co/3nmYjQ46Wg
- Sep 18, 2026179x their median
[WATCH] "I can confirm to you that we are not speculating anymore." Deputy Police Minister Polly Boshielo says the police have identified 3 people of interest in the killings of multiple women in Ekurhuleni. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/JyL463qzO7
- Aug 27, 2026121x their median
[BREAKING NEWS] Suspended EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi issued with arrest warrant over the unauthorised issuing of blue lights. Mkhwanazi is being held in the holding cells over charges relating to the murder of businessman Emmanuel Mbense. Tune into #Newzroom405 for more. https://t.co/JBGtQ2rSL2
- Aug 20, 202669x their median
[WATCH] "Mr Adams, I really can't keep up with the various versions that you are giving," says #MadlangaCommission evidence leader Adv. Lee Segeels-Ncube during Fadiel Adams' cross-examination regarding how he came into contact with IDAC. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/bj9ANSLHfL
- Sep 18, 202663x their median
[WATCH] "I need to disclose to the public that I have known Prof. Fikeni since the '80s and we have kept contact, but I will assess his testimony based on its merits," says Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga before Public Service Commission chairperson Prof. Somadoda Fikeni starts with his testimony. #Newzroom405
- Oct 17, 202653x their median
"If voters still want to go for a chaotic coalition and give us a minority coalition that relies on the EFF, then they'll have to live with that chaos and we will go into opposition."Hellen Zille says voters also need to take responsibility for which party governs the metro. Watch: https://t.co/vRGxHcpVLy
- Aug 20, 202652x their median
[BREAKING NEWS] Stuart Scharnick arrested outside the #MadlangaCommission in Pretoria for alleged intimidation of a journalist. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/H98XhYB2Zg
- Sep 18, 202649x their median
[BREAKING NEWS] Embattled EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi fired as he faces several criminal charges. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/xIHRgxg4FE
- Oct 17, 202648x their median
"The principles of governance are the same," says MK Party mayoral candidate for Joburg Bongani Baloyi, who is unfazed by the size of Joburg. The former Midvaal mayor who achieved multiple clean audits under the DA speaks to @Katlego_Msomi about how he will change Johannesburg. Watch: https://t.co/LGMDt4f4Vi
- Sep 5, 202647x their median
Anti-apartheid activist and Tutu IP Trust chairperson Dr Mamphela Ramphele says organisations like Afriforum represent the post-apartheid government's failure to hold the beneficiaries of colonialism and apartheid accountable. Ramphele was reacting to a lecture given by Wouter 'Dr Death' Basson, the former head of the apartheid state’s secret chemical and biological warfare programme, Project Coast, at the Afriforum Theatre in Pretoria. Afriforum says it only provided the venue and was not involved in arranging for Basson to speak. Ramphele says the arrogance of organisations like Afriforum results from the ANC government's failure to continue with the work the TRC started. Watch: https://t.co/PYkHTrjtiy #Newzroom405
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 8 interactions against 949K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 86 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% 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 3.8K times each, and 0.223% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.401% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 86 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 52% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 300x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #newzroom405, #weekendreport, #madlangacommission.
- What is Newzroom Afrika's engagement rate on X?
- Newzroom Afrika (@Newzroom405) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 86 original posts from the last 30 days against 949,065 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Newzroom Afrika sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,349 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 @Newzroom405 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 11% 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 @Newzroom405 post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.07 posts per day across the measured window.