Economic Freedom Fighters engagement report
@EFFSouthAfrica - 2.4M followers on X
Measured over 107 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 119 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 107 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% of 1,003 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 8.3K times each, and 1.44% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.348% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 107 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 16x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #voteeff, #victoryordeath, #effpodcast.
Measured over 107 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 22, 2026. Recurring tags: #voteeff, #victoryordeath, #effpodcast.
Compared with accounts its own size
Economic Freedom Fighters's engagement rate beats 32% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 65% 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%, Economic Freedom Fighters sits above the 10th percentile of the 9,789 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.006%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.006% |
| 50th percentile | 0.046% |
| 75th percentile | 0.319% |
| 90th percentile | 2.64% |
| 99th percentile | 357.2% |
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 12:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | 0% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | 100% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 4% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | +13% | +10% to +15% | 6.4K |
- 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 4% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 353 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 13% 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
- Aug 16, 202616x their median
President @Julius_S_Malema and the First Lady Ms Mantoa Matlala at the birthday celebration of Her Majesty, Queen Manyaku Thulare. We wish the Queen many more to come and thank her for her contributions. https://t.co/hyuggJHN1Z
- Aug 16, 20268.2x their median
President @Julius_S_Malema accompanied by the First Lady Ms Mantoa Matlala and the leadership of the EFF, arriving at the birthday celebration of Her Majesty Queen Manyaku Thulare. https://t.co/EOvfmID8iT
- Aug 20, 20267.3x their median
FACE OF WHITE CORRUPTION! The Reserve Bank affidavit alleges that a company founded and chaired by DA Federal Finance Chairperson Mark Burke circumvented exchange-control regulations to externalise approximately R4 billion. https://t.co/p0Mu8W2x0E
- Aug 17, 20266.3x their median
The EFF’s Statement on the Reserve Bank Investigation Into DA Federal Finance Chairperson Mark Burke -The allegations against Burke therefore expose a far deeper political issue for the DA. The conclusion that the EFF therefore reaches is simple: if a senior DA leader can be associated with a business facing serious financial crime allegations in its dealings with clients who entrusted it with their money, South Africans cannot hold confidence in his and his party's political leadership to put the interests of ordinary citizens first when entrusted with public resources.
- Aug 16, 20266.0x their median
President @Julius_S_Malema celebrating Queen Manyaku Thulare on the occasion of the birthday. May her blessings be abundant, and her legacy live on. All hail the Queen! https://t.co/7IEm6GSdGp
- Aug 16, 20265.4x their median
President @Julius_S_Malema and the First Lady Ms Mantoa Matlala, honoured and celebrated her majesty Queen Manyaku Thulare on the occasion of her birthday this evening. https://t.co/aJsmPykhGi
- Aug 17, 20265.2x their median
The President @Julius_S_Malema and Deputy President @GardeeGodrich at the Central Elections Task Force Meeting that is currently underway #VoteEFF https://t.co/isEyH2UZCv
- Aug 15, 20265.1x their median
EFF Senior Researcher, Dr Gumani Tshimomola explaining the EFF’s Governance Experience. Without necessarily controlling municipalities outright, we have exercised influence to ensure that governance serves the people. In various municipalities across South Africa, the EFF has consistently used its presence in councils to expose corruption, prevent wasteful spending, demand accountability from municipal administrators, and champion the interests of ordinary residents. #VoteEFF
- Aug 16, 20264.2x their median
President @Julius_S_Malema speaking at the birthday celebration of Her Majesty, Queen Manyaku Thulare. Her Majesty, You carry so much weight on your shoulders, yet you still find time to love and to lift others up. Tonight we honour you. Long Live the Queen! https://t.co/5XfUxjgDkc
- Aug 21, 20264.0x their median
The DA has spent years marketing itself to South Africans as the party of clean governance, competent management, and financial discipline. The allegations against Burke however expose a far deeper political issue for the DA. https://t.co/jlc0PuYGU6
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 119 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 107 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% of 1,003 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 8.3K times each, and 1.44% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.348% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 107 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 16x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #voteeff, #victoryordeath, #effpodcast.
- What is Economic Freedom Fighters's engagement rate on X?
- Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 107 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,374,206 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.005%, Economic Freedom Fighters sits above the 10th percentile of the 9,789 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 @EFFSouthAfrica have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 32% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 @EFFSouthAfrica post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.7 posts per day across the measured window.