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Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol) engagement report

@FabAcademic - 397K followers on X

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.076%
of 397K followers
Per impression
2.43%
12K views on a typical post
Reach
3.14%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
303
interactions (median)
Saved
0.056%
7 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.9/day
active 63% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Saturday

A typical post picks up 303 interactions against 397K followers, an engagement rate of 0.076%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 48% of 3,899 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 12K times each, and 2.43% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.14% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.9 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.4K interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sheownshersuccess, #courage, #ibuylocal.

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #sheownshersuccess, #courage, #ibuylocal.

Compared with accounts its own size

Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol)'s engagement rate beats 48% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 68% 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 0.076%, Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol) sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99156.3%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,701 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 104,204 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 percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile156.3%

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 08:00 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.

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: 08:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%53K
01:00 UTC-2%53K
02:00 UTC-3%52K
03:00 UTC-4%55K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%43K
06:00 UTC-4%50K
07:00 UTC-5%54K
08:00 UTC-4%63K
09:00 UTC-3%72K
10:00 UTC-2%75K
11:00 UTC-3%81K
12:00 UTC-2%90K
13:00 UTC-2%98K
14:00 UTC-3%101K
15:00 UTC-2%105K
16:00 UTC-4%102K
17:00 UTC-3%95K
18:00 UTC-1%88K
19:00 UTC-2%83K
20:00 UTC-1%77K
21:00 UTC-1%69K
22:00 UTC-2%60K
23:00 UTC-2%53K
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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Saturday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%238K
Monday0%302K
Tuesday-3%302K
Wednesday-1%257K
Thursday-2%250K
Friday-3%259K
Saturday+3%233K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 12, 202611x their median

    I never imagined what peace would look like at 60. In 80 days I turn 60. Three years into early retirement, I am living the freedom to be fully myself, equally at home on the farm and in the fastest cities, among mathematics education scholars and among farmers, as a grandmother who is rested, sufficient, and unhurried. Awards and a presidential order have their place. Nothing surpasses the quiet I carry into this next decade. This is the season I prayed for. #MyYearOf60 #Peace #Educator #Speaker #Farmer

    3.1K21589997K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20267.3x their median

    The colleague once warned that if I led by principle, opposing sides would one day unite to oust me, and I would have to “eat my principles.” He was right. Today I am eating them and they taste remarkably good. I sleep peacefully. I am off the depression & anxiety medication. I choose what I do, who I work with, where and when. Things have worked out. I remain grateful to God for the strength and the boldness. Principles may exact a price, but they also deliver a freedom that politics never can. #WomensMonth2026 #Leadership

    1.9K24181649K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20265.8x their median

    In June 2002 I wore this Stoned Cherrie design for my PhD graduation at Wits. Last week, 24 years later, I wore it again for the Telkom Her Network event. It still fits & it’s still stylish. A quiet reminder that some things & perhaps some people are simply ahead of their time. I am grateful for the miracle of nature that is body & for the enduring brilliance of Stoned Cherrie. #TimelessStyle #AfricanFashion #DesignThatEndure #StillStylish

    1.6K9328563K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20265.8x their median

    . https://t.co/59Q4kY8yy2

    1.4K280311128K viewsView on X
  • Aug 3, 20265.0x their median

    This joy looks good on me, this peace fits perfectly. https://t.co/EmnXyeVEWN

    1.4K64361356K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20263.3x their median

    Honoured to attend the launch of the Clement Manyathela Foundation last night. The speeches were deeply moving. Hlalakahle High School and Mpumalanga have every reason to be proud that they produced a man of such calibre and heart. May this foundation open doors and light pathways for many more. #ClementManyathelaFoundation #OpeningPathways #ShapingFutures 👗@1_4RipnSew @GiftSenese

    9226518221K viewsView on X
  • Jul 14, 20263.3x their median

    I used to think success was about being the best and winning the race. Life taught me that success is about handling the worst, refusing to give up & still finishing the race healthy, strong & better than when you started. Resilience outlasts brilliance. #Leadership #Resilience #Antifragile

    8877829325K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20262.6x their median

    Back on the African continent and loving it. This is home. Despite the challenges, Africa offers opportunity and hope. Here I feel at peace - no need to explain my existence, passion or purpose. Our challenges are ours to solve. I appreciate the space I operate in, where the daily work is to explore possible solutions. #Africa #Home

    6606049641K viewsView on X
  • Jul 9, 20262.2x their median

    Not every productive week is a visible week. Sometimes you’re reading. Sometimes you’re listening. Sometimes you’re thinking. Growth doesn’t always announce itself. https://t.co/P4FhiOVALc

    5995717111K viewsView on X
  • Jul 1, 20262.0x their median

    The way others treat you is not a reflection of your worth. It's a projection of the way they see themselves. https://t.co/Wt7oFTRS6R

    5235526314K 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.

Recurring topics

#sheownshersuccess#courage#ibuylocal#isupportlocalbusinesses#leadership

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 303 interactions against 397K followers, an engagement rate of 0.076%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 48% of 3,899 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 12K times each, and 2.43% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.14% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.9 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.4K interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sheownshersuccess, #courage, #ibuylocal.

What is Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol)'s engagement rate on X?
Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol) (@FabAcademic) has an engagement rate of 0.076%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 397,249 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.076%, Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol) sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 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 @FabAcademic have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 48% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @FabAcademic post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.9 posts per day across the measured window.

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