Business Day engagement report
@BDliveSA - 423K followers on X
Measured over 150 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 423K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 150 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 20,182 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 1.9K times each, and 0.154% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.46% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 150 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video, 17% are part of a thread and 81% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 221 interactions, about 74x its own typical post.
Measured over 150 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026. Recurring tag: #yellochair.
Compared with accounts its own size
Business Day's engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 11% 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%, Business Day sits below the 10th percentile of the 203,096 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.674% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 53% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 81% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 53% 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.
- 81% 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 205 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
- Aug 27, 202674x their median
WATCH | Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Zuko Godlimpi argues that the inclusion of the DA in government has moderated their stance on critical issues, such as trade relations with China and the green transition. https://t.co/IfcapuQokq
- Sep 22, 202621x their median
In a wide-ranging interview with Business Day, US ambassador to South Africa Leo Brent Bozell III tipped former president Thabo Mbeki as the person who could clear diplomatic tensions between the two countries. Watch full video on YouTube https://t.co/h8k2Ovclkd https://t.co/Z9PUEfCUh0
- Sep 23, 202612x their median
WATCH | Business Day political editor Hajra Omarjee challenges US ambassador to SA Leo Bozell on whether violent crime disproportionately affects white South Africans. Bozell defends the US focus on rural farm attacks. Full episode: https://t.co/uPQbEEoMn8 https://t.co/8MSujqn0Pd
- Sep 23, 202611x their median
"There has been an outpouring of angst since the release of the latest GDP data. There isn't growth. Shock. In the investment data there is no growth in fixed capital formation and no higher share in (hopefully larger) GDP either. We are stuck at about 13.6% of output." https://t.co/s4cuB1I80L
- Sep 5, 202611x their median
Rolling in profits, Implats plans ambitious mine-life spending https://t.co/syTvCVVKh2
- Aug 29, 202610x their median
Sasol is facing a pivotal moment as its Secunda plant, a major contributor to SA’s fuel and chemicals sector, is linked to severe health impacts and high emissions, with 1,000 estimated annual deaths from pollution https://t.co/FjYmDlhTGI
- Aug 27, 202610x their median
Sandton's office vacancy rate has dropped sharply since 2022, but that's not where the real investment story is anymore. Experts say the smart money is now chasing a mix of industrial, residential, retail and hospitality assets, especially in these areas. Link in comments. https://t.co/elisS4wUYz
- Aug 28, 20269.7x their median
Tongaat Hulett is carrying about R15bn in liabilities, yet the IDC is choosing to deepen its involvement rather than walk away. The state financier's R2.5bn loan is set to convert into equity, making it a shareholder in the sugar giant's future. Link in comments. https://t.co/bjGUIxxXQL
- Sep 6, 20269.0x their median
Angola regulator backs sale of 34% stake in Standard Bank unit https://t.co/RvhRhaA96d
- Aug 27, 20269.0x their median
Falling office vacancies prompting investors to eye Sandton’s wider property ecosystem. https://t.co/plJrJeb72P
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 3 interactions against 423K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 150 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 20,182 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 1.9K times each, and 0.154% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.46% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 150 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video, 17% are part of a thread and 81% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 221 interactions, about 74x its own typical post.
- What is Business Day's engagement rate on X?
- Business Day (@BDliveSA) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 150 original posts from the last 30 days against 422,683 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Business Day sits below the 10th percentile of the 203,096 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 @BDliveSA have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 @BDliveSA post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.9 posts per day across the measured window.