Mzilikazi wa Afrika engagement report
@IamMzilikazi - 658K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 94 interactions against 658K followers, an engagement rate of 0.014%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% of 20,182 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 9.1K times each, and 1.04% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.38% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.5K interactions, about 48x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #celebrateafrika, #wakeupeverybody.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026. Recurring tags: #celebrateafrika, #wakeupeverybody.
Compared with accounts its own size
Mzilikazi wa Afrika's engagement rate beats 39% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 48% 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 0.014%, Mzilikazi wa Afrika sits above the 10th percentile of the 203,096 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 | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.674% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 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 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 85% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 3% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 85% 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.
- 3% 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 112 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
- Feb 22, 202248x their median
If you find my tweets to be provocative, insensitive, explicit, against your religious believes or political agenda, please unfollow me, nobody is holding a gun to your head. DISCLAIMER: I’m not here to live up to your expectations neither you are here to live up to mine. https://t.co/m1UWCJBVaV
- Sep 8, 202612x their median
Congratulations to my brother, from another mother, Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane SC, for this well deserved award and many tried to sabotage this book and other did they do best, to criticise, but you stood your ground @TSFoundation__ @PetersWonderboy @xarrabooks @GillianSchutte1 @vuka__azania @ExclusiveBooks. #ReadWrite✊🏿
- Sep 8, 202610x their median
RIPERILE: Ku famba i ku vona maxaka #CelebrateAfrika 12 https://t.co/uOMjWqtD46
- Aug 31, 20268.6x their median
My team has just made me aware that we actually reached ONE MILLION views in just 3 months. Thanx a million to everyone who has been part of this amazing journey. ❝If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.❞ ~ African Proverb Let’s go together so we can go far and wide. Follow us and please SUBSCRIBE it’s FREE https://t.co/VuQhE8M7rt
- Aug 24, 20268.6x their median
JAMBO: Hello Afrika and tell me how are you doing #CelebrateAfrika 16 https://t.co/dNI1LDbaMP
- Aug 31, 20268.4x their median
❝There is nothing the apartheid government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.❞ ~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela #WakeUpEverybody✊🏿 https://t.co/Yq8sp9qmAT
- Sep 8, 20267.7x their median
Former Crime Intelligence officer, Pilasande Dotyeni, who was a close friend to Lieutenant General Sindile “Pitso” Mfazi, yesterday opened a case of perjury against the Major General Wally Rhoode, head of the Presidential Protection Unit, at Rosebank police station accusing Rhoode of lying about reporting the #PhalaPhala robbery to General Mfazi. The following episode might help you understand who was General Mfazi and why he was poisoned but reported that he died of Covid complications. https://t.co/4F3nBCKUTF
- Aug 31, 20265.2x their median
Thanx a MILLION: Our podcast #UnpopularOpinion has reached its first ONE MILLION views in just four months and thanx a MILLION to everyone who has been supporting us, encouraging us and blessing us with their constructive comments as well as ideas. You too can follow us and please remember to SUBSCRIBE it’s free https://t.co/VuQhE8LzBV
- Sep 8, 20264.9x their median
RIPERILE: Ku famba i ku vona maxaka #CelebrateAfrika 11 https://t.co/SR5snZbanr
- Aug 24, 20264.9x their median
Asante Sana Kenya kwa kunikarikibisha kwa mikono Miwili na Mziki mzuri kwa midi do https://t.co/ZlLQXK8nKP
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 94 interactions against 658K followers, an engagement rate of 0.014%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% of 20,182 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 9.1K times each, and 1.04% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.38% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.5K interactions, about 48x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #celebrateafrika, #wakeupeverybody.
- What is Mzilikazi wa Afrika's engagement rate on X?
- Mzilikazi wa Afrika (@IamMzilikazi) has an engagement rate of 0.014%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 658,260 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.014%, Mzilikazi wa Afrika sits above the 10th percentile of the 203,096 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 @IamMzilikazi have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 39% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 @IamMzilikazi post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.