Diggers.News engagement report
@DiggersOfNews - 162K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 7 interactions against 162K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 12% of 20,444 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 1.3K times each, and 0.544% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.794% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 93% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 208 interactions, about 30x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Diggers.News's engagement rate beats 12% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 27% 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%, Diggers.News sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,048 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 | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 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 05:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 13% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 93% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 13% 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.
- 93% 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 431 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
- Sep 21, 202630x their median
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- Jul 30, 202524x their median
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- Oct 24, 202612x their median
We’ll have a ‘second independence’ to reclaim Zambia’s freedom – Sikota By Diggers Reporter AS Zambia observes its 62nd independence anniversary today, Sakwiba Sikota says he will ‘sadly’ commemorate, and not celebrate, as freedom no longer exists. Sikota says the opposition’s focus is to now have a ‘second independence’ which will reclaim Zambia’s freedom. He is of the view that there’s lack of freedom of expression, https://t.co/YCfI65xAtS Read more @ https://t.co/xPDGUNkJay
- Sep 20, 20269.7x their median
When I get a girlfriend, my wife also gets a boyfriend, man tells court By Peggy Mwansakilwa A MTENDERE man has told the Chelstone Local Court that there is a competition in cheating in his marriage, saying whenever he gets a girlfriend, his wife also gets a boyfriend. Joseph Kanguya, 39, a fashion designer of Mtendere, said this when his wife, Mary Mukupa, 32, a housekeeper, sued him https://t.co/jpC9XB4ASR Read more @ https://t.co/xPDGUNkJay
- Sep 21, 20268.1x their median
Chitimukulu is right, but why are most insults on social media in Bemba? By Diggers Editor PARAMOUNT Chief Chitimukulu is right to be disturbed by the culture of insults that has taken root on social media. Our country’s young generation is increasingly losing touch with the African traditions that taught restraint, respect for elders and responsibility in speech. Social media has made this worse. Hidden behind https://t.co/rTy94iwWNo Read more @ https://t.co/xPDGUNkJay
- Sep 19, 20267.7x their median
Husband returns newly wedded wife to her family for failing to cook By Peggy Mwansakilwa BARELY three weeks after exchanging marriage vows, a Chilanga man has told the Chawama Local Court that he returned his wife to her family because she could not prepare food for him in the morning to take to work, where lunch is not provided. David Moono, 34, a driver, said this https://t.co/bpCA8fgruG Read more @ https://t.co/xPDGUNkJay
- Oct 25, 20266.6x their median
2 Zambian women return from India after sex trafficking By Precious Daka TWO Zambian women have been repatriated from India, after allegedly being subjected to labour and sexual exploitation, the Department of Immigration has disclosed. In a statement, Saturday, Immigration Chief Public Relations Officer Namati Nshinka said the duo had travelled to India in July 2026 for employment, but reportedly found themselves performing https://t.co/hANrQiyel4 Read more @ https://t.co/xPDGUNkJay
- Oct 24, 20266.4x their median
VEEP mocks Jay Jay: How did “Miracle” fail to see arrest coming? By Elijah Munkombwe VICE-President Mutale Nalumango has questioned how Emmanuel Jay Banda, who is self-proclaimed as “Miracle”, failed to foresee his own arrest, despite claiming to know everything. Vice-President Nalumango says civil society organisations should stop asking government to disclose how Banda was apprehended, arguing that they should instead direct their questions to Banda https://t.co/NyNj42WwoJ Read more @ https://t.co/xPDGUNkJay
- Sep 20, 20266.1x their median
I thought I should try marital proportional representation #Choklet https://t.co/bofrhX4nJ1
- Sep 21, 20265.7x their median
Delays in taking Mundubile, Makebi to court regrettable - Nevers By Shadreck Jere FORMER vice-president Dr Nevers Mumba says any delays in taking Brian Mundubile and Makebi Zulu to court are regrettable, claiming that President Hakainde Hichilema wants a speedy process to resolve the matter. Dr Mumba has further urged supporters of the two opposition leaders to avoid being antagonistic over the matter, arguing https://t.co/CaMImOsq6J Read more @ https://t.co/xPDGUNkJay
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 7 interactions against 162K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 12% of 20,444 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 1.3K times each, and 0.544% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.794% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 93% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 208 interactions, about 30x its own typical post.
- What is Diggers.News's engagement rate on X?
- Diggers.News (@DiggersOfNews) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 162,021 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, Diggers.News sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,048 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 @DiggersOfNews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 12% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @DiggersOfNews post?
- Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.