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Julius Sello Malema engagement report

@Julius_S_Malema - 4.4M followers on X

Measured over 25 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 7, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.043%
of 4.4M followers
Per impression
1.22%
155K views on a typical post
Reach
3.50%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.9K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.022%
35 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
9.9/day
active 103% of days
Peak time
09:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 1.9K interactions against 4.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.043%. Measured over 25 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 15,519 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 155K times each, and 1.22% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.50% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 9.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 25 posts sampled, 84% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 22K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #effjazzhour, #drtlaleng4mayor, #voteeff2026.

Measured over 25 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 7, 2026. Recurring tags: #effjazzhour, #drtlaleng4mayor, #voteeff2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Julius Sello Malema's engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 0.043%, Julius Sello Malema sits above the 25th percentile of the 155,670 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.127%.

p100.003%
p250.022%
p50 (median)0.127%
p750.603%
p902.31%
p9983.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 155,670 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 26,055 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.127%
75th percentile0.603%
90th percentile2.31%
99th percentile83.4%

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 09:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 09:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 09:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video84% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link8% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 84% 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.
  • 8% 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 215 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

  • Jun 21, 202412x their median

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    15K5.2K1.7K1276.2M viewsView on X
  • Oct 5, 20269.8x their median

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    14K4.3K574155281K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20268.3x their median

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    11K2.8K1.1K2591.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20264.9x their median

    Vusimuzi Cat Matlala places on record that he was brought in Ekurhuleni through the @Our_DA Democratic Alliance Mayor, Tania Campbell. Let’s see your reactions. https://t.co/mj9yT6GvtB

    6.4K2.6K9892275K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 20264.7x their median

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    7.3K1.5K8436203K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 20264.4x their median

    EFF 2026 Local Government Elections Advert!BOOM #VoteEFF2026 https://t.co/7Vsg9oajQI

    5.6K2.0K6101401.2M viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20264.2x their median

    Apparently these students stoned President Ramaphosas motorcade in anger allegedly😩😩😩 https://t.co/JNETwiW7af

    6.4K1.0K346158891K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 20263.3x their median

    The revolution belongs to the youth. When the old start celebrating your defeat, you must know that you are now a level above your age mates. I’m so happy you didn't forget to register for your academic studies at the beginning of the year and remembered to register again for the SRC elections. I'm very proud of you, @EFFYouthCommand. Continue the good fight. #VoteEff04Nov26✊🏿

    4.5K1.2K40364247K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20262.9x their median

    The guy who said tell him again doesn't want peaceπŸ˜‚ https://t.co/hwlJOIQkfS

    4.7K7396049309K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20262.8x their median

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    3.9K1.2K14686162K 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

#effjazzhour#drtlaleng4mayor#voteeff2026#voteeff2026lge#actionsa

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 1.9K interactions against 4.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.043%. Measured over 25 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 15,519 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 155K times each, and 1.22% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.50% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 9.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 25 posts sampled, 84% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 22K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #effjazzhour, #drtlaleng4mayor, #voteeff2026.

What is Julius Sello Malema's engagement rate on X?
Julius Sello Malema (@Julius_S_Malema) has an engagement rate of 0.043%, based on the median interactions across 25 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,434,316 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.043%, Julius Sello Malema sits above the 25th percentile of the 155,670 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 @Julius_S_Malema have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @Julius_S_Malema post?
Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 9.9 posts per day across the measured window.

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