Timothy Kalyegira engagement report
@TimKalyegira - 133K followers on X
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 344 interactions against 133K followers, an engagement rate of 0.258%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 71% 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 2.77% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.30% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post.
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026. Recurring tag: #amaasokuggwanga.
Compared with accounts its own size
Timothy Kalyegira's engagement rate beats 71% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 71% 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 0.258%, Timothy Kalyegira sits above the 50th percentile of the 212,656 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.146% to 0.697%.
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 | 82.9% |
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 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 | 61% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 61% 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.
- 0% 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 284 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 16, 20264.4x their median
Entrance to Nyakasura School, Fort Portal, Sept. 11, 2026. Founded, 1926, as Tooro's King's College Budo. Past students: Patrick Kaboyo, David Sejusa, Benon Biraro, Noble Mayombo, Jaberi Bidandi-Ssali, Crispus Kiyonga, Patrick Bitature, Robinah Rwakoojo. Photo by @timkalyegira https://t.co/Z1ircpQBbe
- Sep 6, 20263.9x their median
A scene from the 1984 Columbia Pictures adventure-fantasy film "Sheena: Queen of the Jungle". In this opening shot, Elizabeth Bagaaya of Tooro played the role of the tribal noblewoman who raises the young orphan Sheena after the child's parents are killed in a cave-in accident. https://t.co/pOQky4F1q5
- Sep 15, 20263.5x their median
The Tooro succession remains the No. 1 national topic. Yesterday here in Kasese, a Munyankore woman, bitter about the selection committee, said the question of Tooro's rightful king should be put to a national vote. She said she would vote "with both hands" for Baby Oyo.
- Sep 13, 20263.5x their median
I would like to express my gratitude to the 136 people here who sponsored my video and photo trip to commemorate the untimely death of King Oyo of Tooro. Although the royal burial took place yesterday, I'm still shooting content in various parts of Tooro for the next few days.
- Sep 26, 20262.7x their median
King Patrick Kaboyo's house along Nyaika Avenue, Fort Portal, Sept. 22, 2026. After the abolition of the kingdoms, the government evicted the monarchs from their palaces and gave Kaboyo this house. At the time of his death, King Oyo was renovating it. Photo by @TimKalyegira https://t.co/iN35EbSx72
- Sep 30, 2026
Tooro Kingdom has the potential to be the most modern part of Uganda. If I had the power, I'd bring in about 200 Europeans to run Fort Portal. Europeans' rich imagination, attention to detail, organisational genius, and strong sense of purpose would turn Tooro into a jewel.
- Sep 13, 2026
A shop along Lugard Road, Sept. 11, 2026, in Fort Portal (right) that once belonged to a trader, Amirali Karmali. After the 1972 expulsion of the Asians, Karmali moved to Kampala and started a business later known as the Mukwano Group of Companies. Photo by @TimKalyegira https://t.co/9OfwmU89uF
- Sep 26, 2026
Rogers Murungi, Health Prefect, Nyakasura School, Fort Portal, Sept. 18, 2026, in the quirky boys' uniform — a kilt, leather pouch, and red ankle hose. Nyakasura's uniform is one of Tooro's distinctive images. Scottish Highlands meet Tooro Highlands. Photo by @TimKalyegira https://t.co/nWfi2iQn7y
- Sep 5, 2026
In a July 2023 Sunday Monitor review of 30 years of Mutebi's reign, I said the Aga Khan's kingdom lacks geographical territory or a parliament. Yet it's so influential in East Africa, from schools to hospitals, hotels, and media- more impactful than our kingdoms with territory.
- Sep 6, 2026
In tomorrow's Daily Monitor, Sept. 7, read my history of the Tooro kingdom. It traces Tooro's origins, the decisive impact of European missionaries, schools, the stylish, often chaotic royal family, etc. It's a much more comprehensive brief than the Tooro entry on Wikipedia.
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 344 interactions against 133K followers, an engagement rate of 0.258%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 71% 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 2.77% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.30% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post.
- What is Timothy Kalyegira's engagement rate on X?
- Timothy Kalyegira (@TimKalyegira) has an engagement rate of 0.258%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 133,383 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.258%, Timothy Kalyegira sits above the 50th percentile of the 212,656 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 @TimKalyegira have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 71% 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 @TimKalyegira post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.2 posts per day across the measured window.