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Times LIVE engagement report

@TimesLIVE - 2.2M followers on X

Measured over 1014 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 2.2M followers
Per impression
0.061%
1.6K views on a typical post
Reach
0.07%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
35.13/day
active 93% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 2.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 1014 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% 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 1.6K times each, and 0.061% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.075% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 35.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1014 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video and 92% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 2618x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sundaytimesza, #nothingbutthetruth, #choosetrustedjournalism.

Measured over 1014 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #sundaytimesza, #nothingbutthetruth, #choosetrustedjournalism.

Compared with accounts its own size

Times LIVE's engagement rate beats 0% 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 4% 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%, Times LIVE 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 14:00 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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 14:00 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 video17% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link92% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 17% 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.
  • 92% 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 143 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

  • Sep 8, 20262618x their median

    WATCH | Chaos erupted in the Johannesburg High Court following the postponement of proceedings to September 10, with accused Musa Kekana having a heated exchange with SAPS officials. Alleged underworld kingpin, Vusimusi 'Cat' Matlala, also had a heated argument with his defence counsel.

    1.9K48913396315K viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 20262539x their median

    WATCH | Tensions are rising in Orlando West, Soweto, where residents have shut down two spaza shops operated by foreign nationals, saying they are unhappy with the recent Constitutional Court judgment concerning asylum seekers. https://t.co/dMhfeEVylj

    1.9K576743950K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 20261872x their median

    MAMPARA OF THE WEEK | Podcaster Sol Phenduka has a strange idea of what constitutes a joke. https://t.co/sJ1aedNXyZ https://t.co/kcSL3jN2Y6

    9412175691452.1M viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 20261767x their median

    LISTEN | Matric Class of 2026 learners at their farewell function at Avianto listen as school principal Cristèl Venter shuts down their function early, explaining how misbehaviour, reckless driving and poor treatment of venue staff had led to her decision to end the celebration an hour early.

    1.4K1939093361K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20261514x their median

    WATCH | At one Free State housing project, 118 flats have been completed, at an average cost of about R3.6m each. The original planned cost was R233,000 per flat. Sunday times editor Makhudu Sefara unpacks. https://t.co/qqrvSwWaLM

    899523405271K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 20261463x their median

    The ANC faces the prospect of having its assets attached and sold to settle an R880,000 debt after the Johannesburg high court granted a default judgment against the party over unpaid cleaning, hygiene and pest-control services at its Luthuli House headquarters. https://t.co/oPHskEIxoH

    82332619511993K viewsView on X
  • Oct 4, 20261287x their median

    International relations and co-operation minister Ronald Lamola says US ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III must “get out of the kitchen” if he no longer believes in diplomatic engagements with Pretoria https://t.co/9emqUwRQCX https://t.co/dWbPotvnA7

    91521710550103K viewsView on X
  • Oct 18, 20261131x their median

    Social media mourns a beloved grandmother who brought joy to thousands. https://t.co/YVJ6zFgATK

    1.0K733735K viewsView on X
  • Oct 17, 2026980x their median

    DA Johannesburg mayoral candidate @helenzille made a grand entrance in an open-top BMW at the party’s mass rally at Nasrec Expo Centre. https://t.co/4A6vuf6fNT

    6791181087567K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 2026915x their median

    Party finance chief Mark Burke has donated more than R400,000 to the DA as his fintech company faces scrutiny over R4bn in transactions. https://t.co/IpJlAncwZC

    4743564342149K 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

#sundaytimesza#nothingbutthetruth#choosetrustedjournalism#worldnewsday#arenasportsshow

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 1 interaction against 2.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 1014 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% 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 1.6K times each, and 0.061% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.075% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 35.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1014 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video and 92% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 2618x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sundaytimesza, #nothingbutthetruth, #choosetrustedjournalism.

What is Times LIVE's engagement rate on X?
Times LIVE (@TimesLIVE) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 1014 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,174,235 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0%, Times LIVE 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 @TimesLIVE have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @TimesLIVE post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 35.13 posts per day across the measured window.

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