Carlos Lopes engagement report
@LopesInsights - 107K followers on X
Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 13, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 23 interactions against 107K followers, an engagement rate of 0.022%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 20,183 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 2.5K times each, and 0.922% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.34% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 22 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 405 interactions, about 18x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #africawebuild, #egypt, #morocco.
Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 13, 2026. Recurring tags: #africawebuild, #egypt, #morocco.
Compared with accounts its own size
Carlos Lopes's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 38% 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 0.022%, Carlos Lopes sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,985 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 | 0.672% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 16:00 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.
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 | 50% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 59% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 50% 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.
- 59% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 332 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
- Apr 28, 202618x their median
MY NEW BOOK IS OUT. A dignified recognition of Amilcar Cabral, the agronomist, co-organised with my @UCT_news colleagues Anselmo Matusse and Lesley Green. Discover that Cabral was also the father of the African agro-ecology. Free download here 👇 https://t.co/EmFDDJiR2c https://t.co/7YbuMdwBYk
- Sep 21, 202616x their median
On SA's social media, 27% of the anti-foreign-national narrative analysed was linked to a disinformation network of disruptor and bot accounts. How disinformation networks amplify online xenophobia in SA: https://t.co/5cHacjFzym
- Sep 17, 20267.1x their median
The largest debtors to the IMF. Tell me Argentina is technically justified... It has a larger portion than the entire continent of Africa. 😱 https://t.co/RjDkAN1Qds
- Sep 16, 20265.1x their median
"The breakthrough came when Professor Carlos Lopes of the University of Cape Town joined the effort. “He has been talking about the map of Africa for a long time and is quite passionate about it. He came on board and advised us extensively on what he thought we should be doing.” Lopes not only gave the campaign the intellectual weight it needed, but also helped open the right doors within the AU." https://t.co/NXtZ5cRimI
- Sep 30, 20264.2x their median
Five months ago, an East African refinery was an idea at #AfricaWeBuild. Today, the US$16bn project broke ground in Lamu as Kenya's largest-ever FDI. What comes next matters most: skilled jobs, local business and futures closer to home. https://t.co/6sAqYmDPjd
- Sep 24, 20263.7x their median
Happy birthday Guinea-Bissau 💥🌞👌🏻 https://t.co/CZnkGG06FQ
- Oct 8, 20263.6x their median
Apparently, Africa is the world’s debt problem. Meanwhile, OECD governments borrow ever more, absorbing global savings, while capital markets pour billions into AI valuations increasingly detached from plausible returns. Perhaps it’s time to ask who really has a debt problem—and who gets to define the narrative.
- Oct 8, 20262.2x their median
“African leaders have a great deal of agency over which path their people take,” writes @JaredCohen. “The countries that open themselves up, both to intracontinental trade and outside money, are the ones that will likely fare best.” https://t.co/08uTRjIr0v
- Sep 23, 20262.0x their median
"Carlos Lopes, a professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town, said: “There is a real risk that the next secretary general may be less forceful on climate than Guterres has been, not necessarily because of the individual ultimately selected, but because the political environment has changed considerably: climate diplomacy is facing stronger geopolitical headwinds, the multilateral system is under greater strain, and we are seeing forms of ‘climate hushing’, including among countries that only a few years ago wanted to be seen as leaders.” https://t.co/tSaFb5jZPy
- Oct 8, 20261.7x their median
While Africa debates creating its own credit rating agency, we risk missing the bigger challenge: mobilising and deploying our own capital for structural transformation. The JSE dwarfs the continent’s other exchanges, yet its investment patterns hardly serve Africa’s industrial ambitions. We need deeper, integrated capital markets, not just new rating institutions.
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 23 interactions against 107K followers, an engagement rate of 0.022%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 20,183 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 2.5K times each, and 0.922% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.34% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 22 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 405 interactions, about 18x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #africawebuild, #egypt, #morocco.
- What is Carlos Lopes's engagement rate on X?
- Carlos Lopes (@LopesInsights) has an engagement rate of 0.022%, based on the median interactions across 22 original posts from the last 30 days against 106,600 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.022%, Carlos Lopes sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,985 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 @LopesInsights have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 @LopesInsights post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.7 posts per day across the measured window.