ECR_Newswatch engagement report
@ECR_Newswatch - 232K followers on X
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 232K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% 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 713 times each, and 0.14% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.308% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 60 interactions, about 60x its own typical post.
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026. Recurring tag: #anele.
Compared with accounts its own size
ECR_Newswatch's engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 8% 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 under 0.001%, ECR_Newswatch sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,583 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 | 0.677% |
| 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 09:00 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 | 98% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 98% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 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.
- 98% 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 115 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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 7, 202660x their median
We are at the Cape Town Magistrates Court today. The inquest into the death of Anele Tembe is set to begin five years after the 22-year-old fell from the 10th floor of the Pepper Club Hotel. @ECR_Newswatch https://t.co/FaytuXB3oS
- Sep 27, 202619x their median
11 killed in N2 Mtubatuba crash https://t.co/BKGnASxCmV https://t.co/arFVXn1lGO
- Sep 9, 202611x their median
Engine failure suspected after plane crashes in Midrand https://t.co/PH12fY33q2 https://t.co/gy8KDixOFm
- Sep 9, 202610x their median
Impendle Local Municipality has been given less than 48 hours to pay outstanding staff salaries. https://t.co/h8rbWDbB9y https://t.co/7zwB0REKDa
- Sep 5, 20266.0x their median
KwaMakhutha residents call for healthcare facilities closer to community https://t.co/XnFk2gKyRc https://t.co/8hKcaGgN0B
- Sep 28, 20265.0x their median
Woman killed on way to work as Ekurhuleni murder toll rises to 12 READ MORE: https://t.co/uCAioHU2oL https://t.co/sWDoDQWkXm
- Sep 5, 20265.0x their median
ANC mulls approaching Electoral Court over missed IEC nomination deadline https://t.co/9VJl2lL7Fx https://t.co/uOIDuzino5
- Sep 24, 20264.0x their median
Umhlathuze Mayor calls for thorough probe into fatal eNseleni shooting https://t.co/PLWnXRfj4a https://t.co/LHMXRRh3be
- Sep 9, 20264.0x their median
Isuzu issues recall for 2 500 bakkies due to brake pedal fault https://t.co/E0xty0I0sq https://t.co/RlkSFLmJvq
- Sep 5, 20264.0x their median
Nepali woman rescued alive from buried home 10 days after flood https://t.co/loy5KD4TgE https://t.co/o5uuVYiqVB
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 1 interaction against 232K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% 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 713 times each, and 0.14% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.308% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 60 interactions, about 60x its own typical post.
- What is ECR_Newswatch's engagement rate on X?
- ECR_Newswatch (@ECR_Newswatch) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 59 original posts from the last 30 days against 231,869 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, ECR_Newswatch sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,583 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 @ECR_Newswatch have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @ECR_Newswatch post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.7 posts per day across the measured window.