Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo engagement report
@GugsM - 82K followers on X
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 22 interactions against 82K followers, an engagement rate of 0.027%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 20,444 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 2.8K times each, and 0.774% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.48% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 68% carry an image or video, 16% are part of a thread and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.6K interactions, about 73x its own typical post.
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo's engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 34% 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 0.027%, Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
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 14:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 68% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 13% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 68% 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.
- 13% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 196 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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 30, 202673x their median
Soul City is back on South African screens after 12 years. The new seasons starts tonight on SABC 1 at 19:30. They will deal with a variety of socioeconomic issues such as GBV among young people.
- Sep 29, 202665x their median
Nigeria Lost Ghana Lost South africa play Tomorrow by 6pm You know what to expect. https://t.co/5RixyIJfQJ
- Sep 30, 202662x their median
JJ Tabane asked the Patriotic Alliance’s Kenny Kunene, “What are the polls telling you in Johannesburg?” To which Kenny Kunene replied “Poles are for strippers. Poles have never given us any opportunity…” Christ Lord. https://t.co/1i4QaTOSbu
- Sep 27, 202658x their median
Sunday Times reports that “”an explosive SIU investigation has uncovered that a “cabal” of masters office officials, liquidators and insolvency practitioners allegedly captured South Africa’s lucrative liquidation system.”
- Aug 30, 202651x their median
News24 Sunday reports that Zimbabwean pastor Witness Mazanga has ‘sold’ his golf estate mansion to a dormant company owned by his alleged wife shortly after News24’s expose of his R500mil City Power contracts.
- Sep 30, 202649x their median
What was the reason for this?! https://t.co/CgsyDgPz5R
- Sep 2, 202636x their median
The Reserve Bank used Microsoft Copilot to design “elements” of a coin dedicated to the women of 1956?! We went from the brilliance of Lady Skollie doing our R5 a few years ago to ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?! https://t.co/UkqhKe9mBS
- Sep 3, 202633x their median
Just saw this in EB Hyde Park and some of you were raised by wolves 🤮 https://t.co/EJVP1JfsGL
- Aug 30, 202631x their median
Mam’Letta Mbuli tells us that in her younger years she followed Mam’ Abigail and the group she sang with, and was enthralled by the fashion Mam’Abigail and The Skylarks wore. She looked Mam’Abigail in the eyes and said “You inspired me. Thank you, thank you!” Whew ❤️ https://t.co/XlXisZUWPE
- Oct 5, 202626x their median
As far as innovation goes, no radio show is touching @Anele and The Club. They did a show from a car on the N3 today. https://t.co/wEWC4mQ53k
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 22 interactions against 82K followers, an engagement rate of 0.027%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 20,444 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 2.8K times each, and 0.774% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.48% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 68% carry an image or video, 16% are part of a thread and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.6K interactions, about 73x its own typical post.
- What is Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo's engagement rate on X?
- Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo (@GugsM) has an engagement rate of 0.027%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 81,779 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.027%, Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 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 @GugsM have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @GugsM post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.4 posts per day across the measured window.