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The Witness engagement report

@WitnessKZN - 71K followers on X

Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 15, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 71K followers
Per impression
0%
334 views on a typical post
Reach
0.47%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
0
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 10% of days
Peak time
10:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 0 interactions against 71K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 60 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 334 times each, and 0% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.473% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5 interactions. Recurring topics include #crimenews, #ekurhulenimurders, #thewitness.

Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 15, 2026. Recurring tags: #crimenews, #ekurhulenimurders, #thewitness.

Compared with accounts its own size

The Witness's engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 0% 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%, The Witness sits below the 10th percentile of the 213,570 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.147%
p750.699%
p902.61%
p9982.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 213,570 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,410 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 percentile0.147%
75th percentile0.699%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.9%

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 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 10:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 10:00 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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
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 video0% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link97% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 0% 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 211 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

  • Sep 15, 2026

    The bail application of the fifth accused in the murder of uMngeni Municipality DA councillor Nhlalayenza Ndlovu has been postponed for four weeks to verify a previous conviction disputed by the accused. https://t.co/zQd29tY37Z

    2210451 viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 2026

    The ANC did not fall victim to a technical glitch when it failed to submit candidate lists for six municipalities ahead of the November 4 local government elections — it simply ran out of time. https://t.co/BFkjU2R58F

    3200358 viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 2026

    Three lanes of the N3 eastbound have been closed near Durban’s Tollgate Bridge following heavy rainfall and localised flooding on Tuesday. https://t.co/WGtAvleYpi

    1300592 viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 2026

    A brave Grade 11 pupil put his life on the line to protect his younger sister, confronting a knife-wielding robber and being stabbed as he tried to save her during their walk to school in Raisethorpe. https://t.co/AGExeoAHop

    1200439 viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 2026

    ICYMI: The South African Weather Service (Saws) has issued a level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms, valid for Tuesday. https://t.co/Qt67uDT92s

    1200560 viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 2026

    A fifth woman’s body has been discovered in the Kempton Park area, Gauteng, deepening fears as police investigate a string of deaths involving women in the area. https://t.co/eI8meN4vTd

    0201804 viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 2026

    Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has confirmed the discovery of the eighth body on Tuesday evening. https://t.co/UTUVSrK5ro

    1100281 viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 2026

    Another ruthless serial killer — gender-based violence — has claimed a fourth woman’s life in Richmond in just weeks. https://t.co/pjOtfBuMGE

    1100288 viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 2026

    A taxi driver with an outstanding warrant of arrest has been arrested after he was caught transporting 30 passengers in a vehicle licensed to carry only 15. https://t.co/lJr187IFrA

    0200489 viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 2026

    In Pietermaritzburg, an electricity fault affecting parts of Epworth, Hayfields, Lincoln Meade, Bellevue and Scottsville may result in traffic lights being out at some intersections. Motorists are urged to treat the affected intersections as four-way stops. https://t.co/yzbs4ymSDU

    2000419 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

#crimenews#ekurhulenimurders#thewitness

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 0 interactions against 71K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 60 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 334 times each, and 0% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.473% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5 interactions. Recurring topics include #crimenews, #ekurhulenimurders, #thewitness.

What is The Witness's engagement rate on X?
The Witness (@WitnessKZN) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 60 original posts from the last 30 days against 70,590 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0%, The Witness sits below the 10th percentile of the 213,570 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 @WitnessKZN 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 @WitnessKZN post?
Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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