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Eyewitness News engagement report

@ewnupdates - 1.7M followers on X

Measured over 872 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 1.7M followers
Per impression
0.184%
2.2K views on a typical post
Reach
0.13%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
4
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
29.1/day
active 100% of days
Peak time
04:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 872 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% 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 2.2K times each, and 0.184% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 29.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 872 posts sampled, 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.1K interactions, about 764x its own typical post.

Measured over 872 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Eyewitness News's engagement rate beats 3% 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 13% 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 under 0.001%, Eyewitness News sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,270 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%
p750.695%
p902.61%
p9983.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,270 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,455 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 percentile0.695%
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 04:00 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: 04:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 04:00 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 video2% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link99% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 2% 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.
  • 99% 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 162 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

  • Oct 7, 2026764x their median

    A research group on global organised crime has found that South Africa is emerging as a drug-production hub for international export. https://t.co/E6hp24MGqh

    1.6K1.1K14419065K viewsView on X
  • Oct 16, 2026677x their median

    Following the court’s decision to postpone the matter, Carrim will be remanded at Kgosi Mampuru Prison, the same facility where crime-accused Shadrack Sibiya and Vusimuzi Cat Matlala are also being held. https://t.co/TiN3onRH3M

    2.0K4881088768K viewsView on X
  • Oct 16, 2026546x their median

    Adams is charged with three counts of fraud and two counts of defeating the ends of justice. https://t.co/zTlRvyX4J1

    1.5K494818539K viewsView on X
  • Sep 29, 2026400x their median

    Ntshavheni slams false narrative about SA: 'If you are not happy, leave in peace' https://t.co/XfMh7oLCvJ

    1.1K24319952119K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 2026306x their median

    IEC tells court ANC uploaded candidate list 5mins before deadline. https://t.co/Er4E9KAkWQ

    77024015558208K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 2026273x their median

    Malema has run out of legal options after Parliament’s Ethics Committee found that his questioning of the judge on a personal case at the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was out of line. https://t.co/HdKSz2D9px

    784233611364K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 2026236x their median

    Mabe at risk of losing his Porsche Carrera and Steyn City property https://t.co/ufeEMVoOS5

    656180862163K viewsView on X
  • Oct 13, 2026229x their median

    The RAF has pushed for a fuel levy increase to R3.00 per litre, but Barbara Creecy has rejected the proposal. https://t.co/XudDYnZ9Le

    573210656949K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 2026174x their median

    The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has revealed that with just two days to go to the deadline, the African National Congress (ANC) had not submitted candidates’ lists to contest local government elections for almost all municipalities across the country. https://t.co/mC02fdvgPa

    399189713731K viewsView on X
  • Oct 23, 2026160x their median

    Almost 94% of people who took part in a new survey say they don't support the proposed R115 million N2 'safety' wall. https://t.co/RhkY685bw6

    3301411303949K 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 4 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 872 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% 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 2.2K times each, and 0.184% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 29.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 872 posts sampled, 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.1K interactions, about 764x its own typical post.

What is Eyewitness News's engagement rate on X?
Eyewitness News (@ewnupdates) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 872 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,670,227 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At under 0.001%, Eyewitness News sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,270 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 @ewnupdates have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 3% 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 @ewnupdates post?
Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 29.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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