EWN Reporter engagement report
@ewnreporter - 793K followers on X
Measured over 88 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 114 interactions against 793K followers, an engagement rate of 0.014%. Measured over 88 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% 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 18K times each, and 0.644% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 88 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video and 16% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.0K interactions, about 26x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #madlangacommission, #tembeinquest, #heritageday.
Measured over 88 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #madlangacommission, #tembeinquest, #heritageday.
Compared with accounts its own size
EWN Reporter's engagement rate beats 39% 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 36% 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 0.014%, EWN Reporter sits above the 10th percentile of the 211,892 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.693% |
| 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 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.
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 | 97% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 1% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 97% 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.
- 1% 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 239 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 9, 202626x their median
A suspected mandrax lab, worth over R100-million, has been uncovered in Erasmia, near Pretoria. Police say two foreign nationals have been arrested. Video supplied by @SAPoliceService. KJ https://t.co/xxkT3aYAF1
- Sep 21, 202622x their median
A senior police officer has been arrested at a Sandton strip club. The 59-year-old lieutenant general is accused of sexually grooming a 16-year-old and raping an 18-year-old woman. @JusstAlpha https://t.co/UeBl7uMT0Q
- Aug 20, 202622x their median
“I am still standing on what I said that all undocumented people in the country ‘abahambe’,” said Mduduzi Myeza, Mayor of Inkosi Langalibalele Municipality. He was speaking outside the KZN High Court in PMB where he was attending a case for making ‘hateful’ comments. TCG https://t.co/cqkE4Cun3d
- Jul 13, 202622x their median
[WATCH] An elderly woman crosses the flooded Tubatse River in Limpopo on a newly built makeshift bridge after returning from the local clinic. The bridge bounces up and down with every heavy step while swaying from side to side at the slightest unsteady movement. @JusstAlpha https://t.co/DNOAuP8KCS
- Aug 20, 202615x their median
“We (were) not there to talk about land, apartheid or how to hate black people, it’s none of that,” said Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, leader of March and March, on her meeting with AfriForum. Ngobese-Zuma said she expected to face some backlash after meeting with the group. TCG https://t.co/qipkYvONEn
- Sep 17, 202612x their median
BREAKING: Police are attending to a 9th body discovered in Dawn Park this morning. The woman was also found half naked with bruises. @MongeziKoko https://t.co/PPdva9aBnc
- Aug 30, 202612x their median
HAWKS CONFIRM ARREST IN TEMBISA TENDER FRAUD CASE The Hawks have arrested a 37 year-old businessman linked to tender fraud worth R2-billion at the Tembisa Hospital. The suspect was arrested at the OR Tambo Aiport as he arrived from a trip abroad. KJ https://t.co/SxJgcZTPEw
- Sep 9, 202610x their median
Three years on and repairs to Lillian Ngoyi street in the Joburg CBD are still not complete. This is despite millions having already been spent and another missed deadline of August 2026. Mayor Dada Morero will today, again attempt to explain the delay in fixing the road. NMM https://t.co/Kk1mDqC7Qb
- Sep 8, 20269.6x their median
This is Lucas Legabe (49), the man charged with the theft of 541-kilograms of cocaine worth more than R200-million from the Hawks Port Shepstone offices in November 2021. He is appearing today at Port Shepstone Magistrate’s Court. “I’m innocent,” he said. TCG https://t.co/DDl9hROSZ5
- Sep 21, 20269.2x their median
HAPPENING NOW: Tskane Msithini and Fortunate Masilela, accused of the murder of Jabulile Ntimba, are appearing in the Boksburg Magistrates’ Court. Ntimba is the ninth victim in a string of murders involving women in Ekurhuleni. The motive is a suspected love triangle https://t.co/C60Q1AZoNe
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 114 interactions against 793K followers, an engagement rate of 0.014%. Measured over 88 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% 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 18K times each, and 0.644% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 88 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video and 16% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.0K interactions, about 26x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #madlangacommission, #tembeinquest, #heritageday.
- What is EWN Reporter's engagement rate on X?
- EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) has an engagement rate of 0.014%, based on the median interactions across 88 original posts from the last 30 days against 793,129 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.014%, EWN Reporter sits above the 10th percentile of the 211,892 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 @ewnreporter have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 39% 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 @ewnreporter post?
- Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.87 posts per day across the measured window.