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Business Day engagement report

@BDliveSA - 423K followers on X

Measured over 46 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 423K followers
Per impression
0.278%
2.2K views on a typical post
Reach
0.51%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
6
interactions (median)
Saved
0.046%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 17% of days
Peak time
06:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 423K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 46 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 3,792 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 2.2K times each, and 0.278% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.512% 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, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 46 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video, 26% are part of a thread and 72% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 221 interactions, about 37x its own typical post.

Measured over 46 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Business Day's engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 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 22% 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 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 06:00 UTC, and Friday 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 6%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%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
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 27, 202637x 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

    1525210715K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20265.2x 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

    127843.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20265.2x 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

    245114.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20264.8x 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

    206213.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20264.5x their median

    Falling office vacancies prompting investors to eye Sandton’s wider property ecosystem. https://t.co/plJrJeb72P

    225006.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20264.2x their median

    Canada wants to double its non-US exports within a decade. SA is scrambling to diversify after a 30% US tariff. At a Johannesburg seminar, leaders from both countries argued this shared pressure is creating room for a stronger relationship. Link in comments. https://t.co/lzSTpLJ14F

    176202.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20263.0x their median

    It started with a plan to raise VAT from 15% to 15.5%. Now it's a full constitutional fight over who actually holds the power to tax in SA. Sars and Treasury want the ConCourt to overturn a ruling that stripped the finance minister of that power. Link in comments. https://t.co/qeCBc5HH91

    78212.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20262.7x their median

    Barnabus Xulu’s law firm JG and Xulu is suing Jacob Zuma’s MK Party for R12.5m in unpaid legal fees after the party allegedly defaulted on a settlement agreement to pay off its debt https://t.co/pKKDSwQapn https://t.co/lLfrN4u7mY

    104203.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20262.7x their median

    More than 1.27-million foreign tourists arrived in SA in July, a jump of over 17% from June. Almost 80% came from the Sadc region, with Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho leading the way. Link in comments. https://t.co/xfx9ZzetGm

    87101.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.3x their median

    Jubilee selects buyer for Zambian waste project https://t.co/HN2PyNAcFl

    95005.2K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 423K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 46 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 3,792 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 2.2K times each, and 0.278% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.512% 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, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 46 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video, 26% are part of a thread and 72% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 221 interactions, about 37x 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 46 original posts from the last 30 days against 422,595 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 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 @BDliveSA have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 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 @BDliveSA post?
Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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