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MTN Nigeria engagement report

@MTNNG - 1.4M followers on X

Measured over 63 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.003%
of 1.4M followers
Per impression
0.495%
8.5K views on a typical post
Reach
0.62%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
42
interactions (median)
Saved
0.012%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.6/day
active 77% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 42 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 63 original posts, its engagement rate beats 20% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 8.5K times each, and 0.495% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.621% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 63 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10K interactions, about 248x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #dataontrial, #mtncareerseries, #mtnfootball.

Measured over 63 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #dataontrial, #mtncareerseries, #mtnfootball.

Compared with accounts its own size

MTN Nigeria's engagement rate beats 20% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 31% 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 0.003%, MTN Nigeria sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,694 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,694 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,880 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 percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.677%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 15:00 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.

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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link13% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 100% 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 244 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 8, 2026248x their median

    We started with a dream. Today, we're powering millions of possibilities. Here's to many more years of connection and progress. MTNAt25 https://t.co/ugiqw0bnvj

    8.0K4791.7K2495.9M viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 2026151x their median

    25 years of you, us, and progress. We wouldn’t have it any other way.💯​ WeveComeALongWay https://t.co/thAJ2NAabG

    4.1K3341.7K1391.8M viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 202669x their median

    You saw the bigger picture and believed in us. This is our shared success story.​ WeveComeALongWay https://t.co/mJ2OJHbGSz

    2.4K144309421.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 202660x their median

    We walked Y’ello Street yesterday! And what a journey it was. 💛 25 years of products, moments, people and memories, all brought to life in one place. From where we started to how far we’ve come, Y’ello Street is a celebration of the journey we’ve shared with Nigeria. And we’re not done yet. 👀 Y’ello Street continues today. Who’s tagging along with you? 💛 YelloStreet MTNAt25 WeveComeALongWay

    2.1K119255261.8M viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 202659x their median

    We're investing today in the infrastructure that will power tomorrow's possibilities.​ WeveComeALongWay https://t.co/EZkk4YjQw4

    2.1K124277241.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 202657x their median

    Millions of stories lived, shared, and connected through one network. ​ WeveComeALongWay https://t.co/LRUnnH9aD7

    2.0K99236291.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 202635x their median

    No be today😆 If you witnessed these phases of our growth, come and relive them with us at the Y’ello street experience. Date: August 10 - 17 Venue: MTN Plaza, Ikoyi, Lagos WeveComeALongWay MTNAt25 YelloStreet https://t.co/n6uVpvf125

    1.2K81143151.8M viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202628x their median

    25 years of being there for the moments that matter. The connections that made the distance feel a little smaller. We're only getting started. Cheers to the next. WeveComeALongWay MTNAt25 LiveIt100 https://t.co/wkLgHulelz

    1.0K4770163.8M viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202628x their median

    The accused take the stand to tell their side of the story. But will their defence hold up under scrutiny? Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/PSvoZe4G1J as we get one step closer to uncovering the truth about data. DataTruth LiveIt100 https://t.co/TKxydRLAFK

    94358107491.9M viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 202613x their median

    Afrobeats has taken Nigeria to the world. Now let the world hear you. If your music deserves more than your headphones and your hometown, this is your moment. Text NAS to 13013 or visit https://t.co/eek25DzcTj and take your place on the world stage. NextAfrobeatsStar LiveIt100 MTNxNASSeason2

    500303421.5M 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

#dataontrial#mtncareerseries#mtnfootball#mtnxsuperfalcons#naijawegetfootball

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 42 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 63 original posts, its engagement rate beats 20% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 8.5K times each, and 0.495% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.621% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 63 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10K interactions, about 248x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #dataontrial, #mtncareerseries, #mtnfootball.

What is MTN Nigeria's engagement rate on X?
MTN Nigeria (@MTNNG) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 63 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,365,365 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.003%, MTN Nigeria sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,694 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 @MTNNG have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 20% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @MTNNG post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.6 posts per day across the measured window.

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