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Africa Check engagement report

@AfricaCheck - 86K followers on X

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.003%
of 86K followers
Per impression
0.296%
844 views on a typical post
Reach
0.99%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
07:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 86K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 20,444 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 844 times each, and 0.296% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.987% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video, 13% are part of a thread and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 18 interactions, about 9.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #factchecking, #saelections, #lge2026.

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #factchecking, #saelections, #lge2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Africa Check's engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 15% 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 0.003%, Africa Check sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,374 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,897 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 percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 Sunday 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 111%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%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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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 video63% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link78% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 63% 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.
  • 78% 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 288 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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

  • Aug 16, 20269.0x their median

    🔎 Tip of the week: When in doubt about a video, take a screenshot and run a reverse image search. It can help you find the original – and get closer to the facts.

    115201.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20268.5x their median

    Claims that the South African government spent R17 billion on deportations of migrants in the past two financial years are FALSE. The home affairs department has clarified that the figure stands at R175 million, not R17 billion. https://t.co/Wf0c9TSSsR

    115101.4K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 20268.0x their median

    🎥 Catch a glimpse of our two-day election reporting workshop in Johannesburg! Journalists came together with Africa Check, @moxiiafrica and @SAEditorsForum to build practical verification skills, strengthen election coverage and explore tools to support journalist safety. 🗳️ Thanks to everyone who joined us! 🇿🇦

    114011.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 20267.5x their median

    🗳️ Ahead of South Africa’s 4 November local elections, @Our_DA is campaigning on a promise to get the country’s towns and cities “working for all”. We checked 7 claims in its 2026 manifesto against the available evidence. 🧵 https://t.co/wW55Ot9WDW

    32822.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 23, 20266.5x their median

    1/9 🗳️ What are SA’s major parties promising ahead of the 4 November local elections? We compared the manifestos of five parties across seven key municipal issues – from water and electricity to jobs, debt and governance. Here are some of the pledges voters can track 👇🧵 https://t.co/39yqmFFncm

    31811.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20265.5x their median

    No, 2 million doses of HIV medication have not gone uncollected because of anti-migrant protests in South Africa. There is no evidence for the claim, which also reinforces harmful stereotypes about migrants. https://t.co/o6dCK0MuCx

    65001.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 26, 20264.5x their median

    A manifesto promise can sound convincing on paper. But before you take it at face value, look more closely. Ask 3️⃣ questions: Can the municipality deliver it? Can the promise be measured? And does the manifesto explain how it will pay for the promise? These quick checks can help you assess party promises ahead of the 2026 local elections. #LGE2026

    53011.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 20264.5x their median

    Claims that the South African government spent R17 billion on deportations of migrants in the past two financial years are FALSE. The home affairs department has clarified that the figure stands at R175 million, not R17 billion. https://t.co/ceIPNs7Uan

    72001.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 20264.5x their median

    🏙️ Joburg, it’s your turn! Journalists – get ready for election season with practical skills to spot misinformation, verify claims and report responsibly. Join Africa Check, @moxiiafrica & @SAEditorsForum for a free election reporting workshop on 15 and 16 September. Register: https://t.co/RpZadANEHL #LGE2026 #Election2026

    43021.6K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 20264.0x their median

    1/ 🚰 No water. 💡 Broken streetlights. 🚧 Potholes. 🗑️ Uncollected rubbish. These everyday frustrations are largely the responsibility of your local municipality – which is why your vote in the 2026 local elections matters. 🧵👇 https://t.co/C5YkG38YiT

    12501.5K 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

#factchecking#saelections#lge2026#beforeyouvote#southafrica

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 2 interactions against 86K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 20,444 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 844 times each, and 0.296% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.987% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video, 13% are part of a thread and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 18 interactions, about 9.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #factchecking, #saelections, #lge2026.

What is Africa Check's engagement rate on X?
Africa Check (@AfricaCheck) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 85,526 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.003%, Africa Check sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 @AfricaCheck have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @AfricaCheck post?
Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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