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5FM engagement report

@5FM - 1.1M followers on X

Measured over 96 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 1.1M followers
Per impression
0.294%
1.7K views on a typical post
Reach
0.16%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
5
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.23/day
active 67% of days
Peak time
07:00 UTC
Saturday

A typical post picks up 5 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 96 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 3,774 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 1.7K times each, and 0.294% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.157% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 96 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 287 interactions, about 57x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #top40on5, #5nights, #5breakfast.

Measured over 96 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #top40on5, #5nights, #5breakfast.

Compared with accounts its own size

5FM's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 22% 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 0.001%, 5FM sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,521 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,166 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 07:00 UTC, and Saturday 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: 07:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 07:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%50K
01:00 UTC-2%51K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%100K
16:00 UTC-3%97K
17:00 UTC-2%90K
18:00 UTC-1%84K
19:00 UTC-2%79K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%57K
23:00 UTC-2%51K
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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Saturday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Apr 1, 202657x their median

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    722006921K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202618x their median

    🎬✨ WIN A MOVIE NIGHT FOR YOU + 3 FRIENDS! ✨🎬 SPA WEEKEND is a hilarious and heartfelt comedy about four lifelong friends who realize that somewhere between careers, relationships, families and everyday responsibilities, they have forgotten how to take care of themselves and each other 🍿🎟️ Want to win? Easy: ❤️ Like this post 💬 Comment and tag 3 friends you’d take with you 👥 Make sure you’re all following our page Good luck! 🥂🎬

    47192413.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202612x their median

    TEEKS LIVE IN CAPE TOWN! 🔥 Teeks is bringing the vibes to South Africa! 🇿🇦✨ 📍 Grand Arena, GrandWest, Cape Town 📅 27 August 2026 Want to go with your crew? You could win tickets for you + 4 friends! 🙌🏾 To enter: ❤️ Like this post 👥 Tag the 4 friends you want to take with you 📍 Make sure you’re based in Cape Town Let’s get you and your squad to Teeks Live! 🎶🔥 #TeeksInSA #5FM

    30201202.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20263.8x their median

    Snake Park raised her. Kasi culture shaped her. 🎤🔥 Now, Fergason takes her story to the #HipHopChair. Catch the full conversation as she joins #5HipHopNights with @speedstabro and @ShabZiMadallion to unpack her journey, lyricism, storytelling and her mission to take Kasi rap to wider audiences. Watch the full interview now: https://t.co/qY8K49yX7W #5FM #5HipHopNights #Fergason #HipHop

    114313.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20263.6x their median

    This week on the #Top40On5, @HarrisonMkhize_ hangs out with @Espacio_dios to chat about his new single “Human”, the international love it’s receiving, and his journey from SA to making waves on global charts. 🔥 📻 Don’t miss the conversation on 5FM! https://t.co/PM7VvmtXPy

    134012.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20263.4x their median

    Easy vibes with @easyfreakmusic! 🎶✨ The duo joined @HarrisonMkhize_ in studio on #Top40On5 to catch up and chat about their new single, “Only Like You Do”. 🔥📻 https://t.co/B4evHcM2z9

    143003.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20263.2x their median

    You get paid today. How long before you’re broke? 😭

    613611K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20262.8x their median

    From her big SAMA win to a massive new collab with @KwestaDaKAR ! 🎶🔥. Catch R&B star @longlivelordkez live on #5Drive this Friday at 4 PM to hear all about her new track "4Sho". Lock it in! 🎧📻 https://t.co/TFHuqi1GA9

    95001.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20262.6x their median

    Today on The Great African Story, @ByLwansta joins Smash Afrika Weekends to unpack his journey from Kokstad to South Africa’s alternative music landscape. From independent musician to multidisciplinary artist and cultural entrepreneur, his story is rooted in one powerful philosophy: create the things you wish existed. Tune in to #SmashAfrikaWeekends on 5FM! 📻

    93011.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20262.4x their median

    The Hip Hop Chair is occupied! 🪑🔥 This week on 5 Hip Hop Nights, @speedstabro and @ShabZiMadallion sit down with SCUMIE to unpack her evolution as an artist, carving out her identity in SA hip-hop, her latest music and what it means to be a woman navigating the culture today. https://t.co/eBpCmqy7Bw

    73025.2K 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

#top40on5#5nights#5breakfast#partywithph#5drive

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 5 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 96 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 3,774 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 1.7K times each, and 0.294% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.157% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 96 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 287 interactions, about 57x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #top40on5, #5nights, #5breakfast.

What is 5FM's engagement rate on X?
5FM (@5FM) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 96 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,084,476 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, 5FM sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @5FM have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @5FM post?
Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.23 posts per day across the measured window.

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