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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Apr 1, 202657x their median
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- 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! 🥂🎬
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Aug 26, 20263.2x their median
You get paid today. How long before you’re broke? 😭
- 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
- 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! 📻
- 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
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 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.