Airtel Uganda engagement report
@Airtel_Ug - 565K followers on X
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 21 interactions against 565K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% 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 6.5K times each, and 0.323% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 244 interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #tuukabulungi, #cyberug, #airtelvolte.
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #tuukabulungi, #cyberug, #airtelvolte.
Compared with accounts its own size
Airtel Uganda's engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 25% 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 0.004%, Airtel Uganda sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 09:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 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% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 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% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 20, 202612x their median
Throwback to when internet cafés were the place to be! 😂 Pay for your minutes, log in, check emails, chat on MSN, and browse the web. Every minute counted! Who remembers those days? https://t.co/TcqVyJmQfA
- Aug 14, 20265.9x their median
What would you rather WIN? UGX 300,000 Cash A Back-to-School Hamper worth UGX 300,000
- Aug 20, 20262.6x their median
Beera Smart, we now help you spot fraud messages when they hit your inbox. #AirtelSpamAlert https://t.co/ECOwc3sA3R
- Aug 14, 20262.0x their median
Muliwa tonight.....🎉🎉 https://t.co/NlaQLKTfnM
- Aug 18, 20261.8x their median
Hot take: People who send 8-minute voice notes should be canceled.
- Aug 12, 20261.8x their median
Join us for Day 2 of #CyberUG, starting shortly at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel. Mr. Uwagboe Ehimwenman, @Airtel_Ug IT Director, will contribute to the conversation on “National Cyber Incidents – From CII (Critical Information Infrastructure) Disruption to Cross-Sector Impact.” https://t.co/xRbpgF2irX
- Aug 23, 20261.7x their median
Long-distance relationships are hard enough. Don’t let a poor internet connection make them harder. Stay connected with a wifi you can count on. #AirtelSmartConnect https://t.co/4N5j57CG3N
- Aug 16, 20261.6x their median
Good moments are better shared. With Tugabane, share your data with up to 4 of your squad members and stay connected through every call, scroll, stream, and laugh. Because data tastes better when shared. #AirtelTugabane https://t.co/vVttEd3MSo
- Aug 21, 2026
Let us reverse the loss we are suffering. Put your phone away and concentrate on the road. #TuukaBulungi https://t.co/QVm4GYnEeV
- Aug 12, 2026
Which song is carrying you through the week? https://t.co/Xw6BJY6iFf
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 21 interactions against 565K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% 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 6.5K times each, and 0.323% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 244 interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #tuukabulungi, #cyberug, #airtelvolte.
- What is Airtel Uganda's engagement rate on X?
- Airtel Uganda (@Airtel_Ug) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 47 original posts from the last 30 days against 564,969 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, Airtel Uganda sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @Airtel_Ug have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @Airtel_Ug post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.7 posts per day across the measured window.