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ALX Africa engagement report

@alx_africa - 94K followers on X

Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 17, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.009%
of 94K followers
Per impression
0.252%
3.6K views on a typical post
Reach
3.79%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
9
interactions (median)
Saved
0.028%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.43/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Wednesday

Early reading. We have captured 5 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 9 interactions against 94K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Posts are seen about 3.6K times each, and 0.252% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.80% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 60% are part of a thread and 40% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21 interactions, about 2.3x its own typical post. Only 5 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 17, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.009%, ALX Africa sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,741 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%
p750.697%
p902.61%
p9982.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,741 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,375 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 percentile0.697%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.8%

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 17:00 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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 17:00 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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link40% 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.
  • 40% 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 266 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

  • Aug 13, 20262.3x their median

    David taught himself to code, but learning alone meant that getting stuck could turn a few hours into days…. 🧵 https://t.co/jM8BlVAPEJ

    153304.3K viewsView on X
  • Jun 30, 20262.0x their median

    Freelancing is no longer a side hustle or a backup plan. It is a legitimate, high-earning, high-impact career path that is reshaping how the global economy operates. 1.57 billion people worldwide are doing it, here’s how 🧵 https://t.co/BGgBkaziBJ

    122405.2K viewsView on X
  • Jul 15, 20261.9x their median

    World Youth Skills Day exists because the conversation about skills keeps stopping too early, at the individual and never at the ripple. This year's theme, Skills for a Shared Future, is a reminder that the real measure of someone's development isn't just 🧵… https://t.co/lUKPZ2jpTR

    112404.8K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 20261.8x their median

    Many people think an international career starts with moving abroad. Helina Tadesse proved otherwise by building practical skills that opened doors to global opportunities from Addis Ababa. Read her story: https://t.co/AEdgL8eVYY https://t.co/E6qfveCnwV

    133003.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20261.7x their median

    Three learners, three different career starting points: a self-taught developer deepening his technical skills, a professional changing direction after realising her first path wasn’t for her, and a media professional finding his place in tech. Different journeys but the same..🧵 https://t.co/FH6MQBTNlR

    122103.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 20261.6x their median

    “People don't care about your product. They care about their problem being solved.” Gideon Gitonga built Nomachain a fintech turning African renters into homeowners to prove it. Episode 2 is out now. Watch it here 🔗 : https://t.co/nzXAtvd8Uz https://t.co/TrO2sHz8Bo

    122003.4K viewsView on X
  • Jul 9, 20261.6x their median

    Less than 3% of the global AI workforce is based in Africa and yet the market is growing at over 35% a year. When demand grows faster than supply, the people already positioned inside it don't just get hired, they get to set the terms 🧵 https://t.co/IabRKZjY6x

    103105.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 2026

    African youth are more ready than the systems around them. Ruby Igwe, Regional Director West & Central Africa, live on @cnbcafrica's Power Lunch West Africa. Friday 11 Sept · 12:00 PM WAT https://t.co/RDaa2Mq9Ha https://t.co/yG5Dn2tkVe

    101112.9K viewsView on X
  • Jul 8, 2026

    Sheba was already working as a Portfolio Analyst in Nairobi in 2023 when she recognised the gap between where she was and where she wanted to be. She wanted stronger data capabilities and more analytical, strategic responsibilities, but the cost of most learning options … 🧵 https://t.co/FyXk1YZmXw

    110114.9K viewsView on X
  • Jun 26, 2026

    Africa does not have a shortage of greatness. It has a shortage of mirrors. Those people are in our community. And now we want the world to see them. #IAmTheStory_ALX is live. A thread - https://t.co/ZhnmkpYApJ 👇 https://t.co/Gg12Cn7xaL

    100117.6K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 9 interactions against 94K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Posts are seen about 3.6K times each, and 0.252% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.80% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 60% are part of a thread and 40% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21 interactions, about 2.3x its own typical post. Only 5 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is ALX Africa's engagement rate on X?
ALX Africa (@alx_africa) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 5 original posts from the last 30 days against 94,069 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.009%, ALX Africa sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,741 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 @alx_africa have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @alx_africa post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.43 posts per day across the measured window.

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