The Nairobi Times engagement report
@TheNairobiTimez - 202K followers on X
Measured over 108 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 176 interactions against 202K followers, an engagement rate of 0.088%. Measured over 108 original posts, its engagement rate beats 57% 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 12K times each, and 1.48% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.89% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 108 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 15% are part of a thread and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.0K interactions, about 34x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #arrowdental, #arrowdentalgoesglobal.
Measured over 108 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026. Recurring tags: #arrowdental, #arrowdentalgoesglobal.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Nairobi Times's engagement rate beats 57% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 53% 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 0.088%, The Nairobi Times sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,805 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.146%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.697% |
| 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 08:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 6% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% 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.
- 6% 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 194 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 8, 202634x their median
How Kenyans combine different businesses 😂😂 https://t.co/SNQancJum3
- Oct 9, 202621x their median
Onyango Tate’s cameraman, King Kaka Junior, has found himself under scrutiny after fans spotted him at a posho mill grinding maize. https://t.co/qgdrJuNyAb
- Oct 8, 202613x their median
A man paid a group of children money after finding them with an eagle they had caught, convincing them to release the bird back into the wild. https://t.co/rYsitEeA15
- Sep 14, 202613x their median
Crazy Kennar teams up with Nikita Kering’ in a hilarious new skit that highlights the struggles, misunderstandings and unexpected drama that can come with co-parenting 😂 https://t.co/i9zlKSzhH5
- Oct 8, 20269.8x their median
Kenyan Maasai man caring for an alleged stray baby giraffe for nearly a week shares a selfie with the young animal. https://t.co/0X3RLTDYM1
- Sep 14, 20269.6x their median
A resurfaced video revisits claims that Redsan used to track down media personalities who spoke negatively about him. https://t.co/FwnYUCOtxU
- Sep 14, 20268.0x their median
A clear image has surfaced showing the female supporter dancing in a dera as the Linda Mwananchi convoy passed through her area. https://t.co/l6NNGDpfUx
- Sep 14, 20266.7x their median
A female supporter danced from her balcony as the Linda Mwananchi convoy passed through her area, showing her excitement. https://t.co/Q509nsvOxF
- Sep 14, 20266.2x their median
Comedian Mwirigi and Lenny Vybzz recreated the viral Gen Z Vs Traffic police officer in Kiambu https://t.co/iBUhhaLPwL
- Sep 15, 20266.1x their median
A man tracked down his Kikuyu girlfriend Olivia Muthoni after she vanished with his phone containing over KSh70,000 and an additional KSh20,000 in cash before going into hiding. https://t.co/44geGGbE0L
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 176 interactions against 202K followers, an engagement rate of 0.088%. Measured over 108 original posts, its engagement rate beats 57% 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 12K times each, and 1.48% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.89% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 108 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 15% are part of a thread and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.0K interactions, about 34x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #arrowdental, #arrowdentalgoesglobal.
- What is The Nairobi Times's engagement rate on X?
- The Nairobi Times (@TheNairobiTimez) has an engagement rate of 0.088%, based on the median interactions across 108 original posts from the last 30 days against 201,710 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.088%, The Nairobi Times sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,805 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 @TheNairobiTimez have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 57% 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 @TheNairobiTimez post?
- Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.37 posts per day across the measured window.