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Airtel Uganda engagement report

@Airtel_Ug - 570K followers on X

Measured over 44 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 12, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.005%
of 570K followers
Per impression
0.44%
6.4K views on a typical post
Reach
1.12%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
28
interactions (median)
Saved
0.016%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.87/day
active 63% of days
Peak time
06:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 28 interactions against 570K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 44 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% of 19,932 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 6.4K times each, and 0.44% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.12% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 44 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 276 interactions, about 9.9x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #airtelxstarlink, #anotherfirstfromairtel, #ncc2026.

Measured over 44 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 12, 2026. Recurring tags: #airtelxstarlink, #anotherfirstfromairtel, #ncc2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Airtel Uganda's engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 28% 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 0.005%, Airtel Uganda sits above the 10th percentile of the 200,870 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.141%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 200,870 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 percentile0.141%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
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 06:00 UTC, and Monday 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: 06:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 06:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 video98% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link9% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 98% 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.
  • 9% 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 237 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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

  • Sep 3, 20269.9x their median

    Before mobile money and digital top-ups, there was the good old scratch card. Who remembers buying their airtime this way? #ThrowbackThursday https://t.co/aLsTIPfo9Y

    19812551120K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20268.7x 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

    1621067517K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20265.6x their median

    We join the nation in mourning the passing of His Majesty Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV. Our deepest condolences go to the Royal Family, the people of Tooro, and all Ugandans during this difficult time. Omukama Oyo, atulize. Enkuba etutire. 🕊️ https://t.co/Y82wRussEh

    1429607.7K viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 20264.9x their median

    PUBLIC NOTICE: Airtel Uganda invites interested parties to participate in the October 2026 Asset Disposal through a sealed-bid process. 📅 Submission deadline: 12 October 2026, 4:00 PM. See the notice for full details and bidding requirements. https://t.co/THQ5zxvwfc

    70957079K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 20264.8x their median

    Airtel Uganda has officially launched its Satellite-to-Mobile service in partnership with Starlink, marking another first in Uganda’s telecommunications sector. #AirtelXStarlink #AnotherFirstFromAirtel https://t.co/Zef9BeJBN7

    923011113K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 20264.4x their median

    What would you rather WIN? UGX 300,000 Cash A Back-to-School Hamper worth UGX 300,000

    551454069K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20263.9x their median

    Muli wa? 👀 Tonight tugende wa? https://t.co/UkUBwIxWds

    46846928K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20263.5x their median

    Airtel UG has delivered another strong half-year performance, demonstrating resilient growth, operational excellence and continued investment in Uganda’s digital future that we are proud to be part of. Here are the key highlights from our H1 2026 results. #AirtelUgandaH1Result https://t.co/XYU8yixxL9

    202354011K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20263.2x their median

    2 DAYS LEFT! 20 full Airtel Africa Foundation Tech Fellowships are available to eligible Ugandan undergraduates pursuing tech-related degrees, covering tuition, accommodation & a stipend. Applications close on 9 Sept 2026. Apply: https://t.co/2MLCphLuvh https://t.co/TgFMqtCpPZ

    281249044K viewsView on X
  • Oct 6, 20263.0x their median

    Check In Tweet: Today's duty station is Ntinda. I will be listening more, serving, taking feedback. #ExtraMile. Thank you for giving us a chance to serve you all. @Airtel_Ug @airtelmoneyug #CX https://t.co/EQtpbkYc0m

    55151328.7K 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

#airtelxstarlink#anotherfirstfromairtel#ncc2026#tuuliextra#airtelcares

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 28 interactions against 570K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 44 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% of 19,932 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 6.4K times each, and 0.44% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.12% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 44 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 276 interactions, about 9.9x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #airtelxstarlink, #anotherfirstfromairtel, #ncc2026.

What is Airtel Uganda's engagement rate on X?
Airtel Uganda (@Airtel_Ug) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 44 original posts from the last 30 days against 569,647 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.005%, Airtel Uganda sits above the 10th percentile of the 200,870 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 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 06:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.87 posts per day across the measured window.

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