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Herman Mashaba engagement report

@HermanMashaba - 796K followers on X

Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.012%
of 796K followers
Per impression
1.33%
7.0K views on a typical post
Reach
0.88%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
93
interactions (median)
Saved
0.014%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
6.97/day
active 30% of days
Peak time
10:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 93 interactions against 796K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 36% of 21,185 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 7.0K times each, and 1.33% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.879% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video and 18% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.0K interactions, about 86x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #5moreyears, #actionsamanifestolaunch, #letactionlead.

Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #5moreyears, #actionsamanifestolaunch, #letactionlead.

Compared with accounts its own size

Herman Mashaba's engagement rate beats 36% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 55% 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 0.012%, Herman Mashaba sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,270 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.695%
p902.61%
p9983.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,270 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,455 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.695%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile83.1%

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 10:00 UTC, and Sunday 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: 10:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 10:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video89% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link18% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 89% 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.
  • 18% 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 545 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

  • Aug 29, 202686x their median

    Who would’ve thought that one day the people will start rejecting the beloved ANC. The Premier of Free State rejected whilst doing Door To Door 😭 https://t.co/JNvZwumOBh

    5.7K1.9K211117278K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 202666x their median

    This is the young South African whose identity was stolen by Chidimma Adetshina's mother for the benefit of Chidimma. To all South African supporters of Chidimma, this is your fellow South African that you are supposed to be supporting instead of supporting fraudster Chidimma https://t.co/H0j7LVF5Rl

    3.7K2.1K212112338K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 202658x their median

    This is a WhatsApp group between Kgoši Maepa and ANC big wigs plotting to destroy Dr Nasiphi Moyo by falsely accusing her of corruption regarding using services of a contractor for her swimming pool. They appear determined to destroy a hard-working Black woman for political gain. When Mayor Nasiphi Moya delivers services, improves Tshwane and puts residents first they call it “abuse” and flood social media with Lies unsubstantiated allegations and propaganda. This isn’t about accountability. It is about votes, tenders and political survival. They will do anything to discredit the best Mayor Tshwane has ever had even when the facts don’t support their claims. Leave Nasiphi alone!

    3.5K1.5K21385249K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202632x their median

    Mlungu is on the street of Cape Town and asking relevant questions that even EFF can't even ask https://t.co/pRRu0qk90h

    2.1K850522639K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 202622x their median

    Who should be Ekurhuleni Mayor 🤔 https://t.co/KtKH5PhovC

    1.2K10169484158K viewsView on X
  • Jun 12, 202524x their median

    Every morning until the local elections I will post the track record of ActionSA leaders like Nasiphi Moya, Herman Mashaba & Athol Trollip in fixing broken municipalities. I do this to show that ActionSA is the proven alternative to broken municipalities led by failed parties. https://t.co/PveDtzdP3A

    1.4K379245251.4M viewsView on X
  • Sep 26, 202615x their median

    Immigration is a national government responsibility, but that does not mean we look the other way when we encounter illegal immigration in our city. Working with Home Affairs and other law-enforcement authorities, more than 1,400 undocumented foreign nationals have been arrested during operations in Tshwane. #ActionSAManifestoLaunch

    1.0K258992751K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 20268.9x their median

    I need less than 2 minutes to tell you why you should Vote Mashaba for Mayor! Give that man a clear mandate come 4 November. As a fellow Joburg resident, I guarantee you, you won’t be sorry. https://t.co/T8L155F4xH

    567168841221K viewsView on X
  • May 22, 20238.3x their median

    [WARNING STRONG LANGUAGE] Angry #Hammanskraal residents ambush two cars transporting Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink at the Jubilee District Hospital where a #CholeraOutbreak has been reported. They accuse the Tshwane municipality of ignoring their concerns the state of water here https://t.co/8A96yjxKkI

    3862155753162K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20266.3x their median

    I sat down in a conversation with @pieterkrielorg on his podcast, In the Cross Fire with Pierre Kriel, and I must say this is a must-watch because, oh my goodness, it was unfiltered and robust on my politics, immigration and my Joburg Mayoral race. #OperationFixJoburg #UnfinishedBusiness

    389701191133K 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

#5moreyears#actionsamanifestolaunch#letactionlead#operationfixjoburg#reaspana

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 93 interactions against 796K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 36% of 21,185 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 7.0K times each, and 1.33% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.879% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video and 18% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.0K interactions, about 86x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #5moreyears, #actionsamanifestolaunch, #letactionlead.

What is Herman Mashaba's engagement rate on X?
Herman Mashaba (@HermanMashaba) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 796,429 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.012%, Herman Mashaba sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,270 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 @HermanMashaba have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 36% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @HermanMashaba post?
Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 6.97 posts per day across the measured window.

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