African Bank engagement report
@AfricanBank - 79K followers on X
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 7, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 79K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 6,874 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 369 times each, and 0.542% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.467% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 39% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8 interactions, about 4.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #africanbank, #audacitytobelieve, #africanbanksaving.
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 7, 2026. Recurring tags: #africanbank, #audacitytobelieve, #africanbanksaving.
Compared with accounts its own size
African Bank's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 4 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 26% 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%, African Bank sits above the 10th percentile of the 66,128 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.016%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.499% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.9% |
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 12:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 39% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 100% 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.
- 39% 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 402 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 13, 20264.0x their median
This Womenās Month, we celebrate the women that transform our lives. Speaking in an exclusive interview with @sellohatang on @Powerfm987, African Bank Group CE: Personal Banking, Happy Ralinala, reflected on the women in her life and they the role they played in shaping the choices she made. Catch up here: https://t.co/tP2vRzhnby #AudaciousWomen #WomensMonth #AfricanBank #AudacityToBelieve
- Aug 20, 20263.5x their median
Find out what inspires African Bank CE: Personal Banking, @Ralinalahapps, her background and the people that shaped her character in this interview with @jmoyaha_, host of @SAfmRadio The Money Market Update. Catch up on the conversation here: https://t.co/z1hFX83DbJ #AudaciousWomen #WomensMonth #AfricanBank #AudacityToBelieve
- Aug 18, 20263.5x their median
Happy Ralinala, African Bankās Chief Executive for Personal Banking, takes the stage at GEC+Africa 2026 for a panel on women driving entrepreneurship across Africa. Register: https://t.co/O5QupyNX8K šCape Town | šļø17 September 2026 #AfricanBank #AudacityToBelieve #GECPlusAfrica26 @GEN22OnSloane @Ralinalahapps
- Aug 8, 20263.5x their median
And the wins keep coming for the World Champions!šæš¦ #AudacityToBelieve #AfricanBank #ARGvRSA https://t.co/nEnfSIkRv4
- Aug 14, 20263.0x their median
Tonight on @Newzroom405, our Chief Executive for Personal Banking, Happy Ralinala, sits down with @tumisangndlovu for a conversation you wonāt want to miss. Tune in tonight at 18:30 on Newzroom Afrika, DStv Channel 405, as they unpack insights and perspectives from one of African Bankās leading voices. #AfricanBank #NewzroomAfrika #AudacityToBelieve
- Aug 7, 20263.0x their median
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- Sep 2, 20262.0x their median
Thinking of starting a stokvel? African Bank will back your audacious stokvel goals! Open an account and enjoy competitive interest rates, no monthly management fee and 24/7 digital access with transparency for up to 100 members. Apply at https://t.co/IXNXXf9VQc, your nearest branch, you can also contact our call centre on 086111 1011 or sms āStokvelā to 30963. Learn more: https://t.co/OhahvxtW3o #Stokvel #AfricanBank #AudacityToBelieve #AfricanBankStokvel
- Aug 28, 20262.0x their median
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- Aug 21, 20262.0x their median
Keeping money is not only about spending wisely. It is also about saving and watching it grow with an African Bank savings solution. #AfricanBankSaving #AfricanBank #AudacityToBelieve https://t.co/ZtZ5wUd1wm
- Aug 17, 20262.0x their median
Women make up 55% of banking staff, but top leadership remains male-dominated. Workplaces still fail to accommodate the unique needs of women, whose role in society covers both caregiver and corporate employee. In a conversation with @tumisangndlovu on Newzroom Afrika (@Newzroom405), African Bank Personal Banking CEO @Ralinalahapps recommends: ā Addressing womenās obligations as caregivers through flexible workplace policies ā Compelling organisations to adopt a āpeople centricā approach and be flexible enough to accommodate female staff ā Building multiple income streams through entrepreneurship #AudaciousWomen #WomensMonth #AfricanBank #AudacityToBelieve
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 2 interactions against 79K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 6,874 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 369 times each, and 0.542% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.467% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 39% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8 interactions, about 4.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #africanbank, #audacitytobelieve, #africanbanksaving.
- What is African Bank's engagement rate on X?
- African Bank (@AfricanBank) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 33 original posts from the last 30 days against 78,963 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, African Bank sits above the 10th percentile of the 66,128 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 @AfricanBank have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @AfricanBank post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.