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SABCNews_MorningLive engagement report

@MorningLiveSABC - 339K followers on X

Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 15, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 339K followers
Per impression
0.712%
562 views on a typical post
Reach
0.17%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
4
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.37/day
active 10% of days
Peak time
03:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 339K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 15,519 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 562 times each, and 0.712% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.166% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 15% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 89 interactions, about 22x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #morninglive, #sabcnews, #morninglie.

Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 15, 2026. Recurring tags: #morninglive, #sabcnews, #morninglie.

Compared with accounts its own size

SABCNews_MorningLive's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 36% 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 0.001%, SABCNews_MorningLive sits below the 10th percentile of the 157,102 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.

p100.003%
p250.022%
p50 (median)0.128%
p750.604%
p902.32%
p9983.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 157,102 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 26,052 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 percentile0.128%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
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 03:00 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: 03:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 03:00 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 video85% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link15% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 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.
  • 15% 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 205 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

  • Sep 3, 202622x their median

    [QUESTION OF THE DAY] What stood out to you from retired Hawks head Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya’s Madlanga Commission testimony yesterday? #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/FeAJMooq6l

    1636462.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 20265.0x their median

    [QUESTION OF THE DAY] What more must be done to tackle the scourge of gender-based violence after five women were killed in Kempton Park? #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/F5n2fFfRIl

    41150434 viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 20264.3x their median

    [SPORT QUESTION] What do you make of the power struggle in world football and SAFA President Danny Jordaan's support of embattled FIFA President Gianni Infantino? #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/z3p4tzKcRO

    5561536 viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20263.3x their median

    Send us a picture of what your morning weather looks like. Remember to use landscape mode and tag your location. #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/zaPrTDfG6G

    6340657 viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20263.0x their median

    The Ad Hoc committee investigating allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the country's justice system has hit a stumbling block over how to reflect President Cyril Ramaphosa's evidence in its fourth draft report. #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/PwxHvObY8S

    8040852 viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20262.8x their median

    A regional meeting scheduled for today in Muscat, Oman will focus on a new maritime traffic route in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said. #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/GIrWsexFRU

    37011.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20261.8x their median

    Tiger Woods will have his licence suspended for five years after reaching a plea deal in his impaired-driving case #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/E3ICYipm99

    4300440 viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20261.5x their median

    [REPORTER CROSSINGS] COSATU's 15th National Congress takes place in Midrand, Johannesburg from today until Thursday. SABC News Repoter, Katlego Legodi has more. #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/qqYJV5x9MP

    33001.3K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20261.5x their median

    [WATCH] Here are your news headlines this Monday morning. https://t.co/G2CeUuGW8k #MorningLive #SABCNews

    33001.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20261.5x their median

    Erling Haaland's goal helped Manchester City win a highly controversial Manchester derby at rivals Manchester United despite playing with 10 men for more than 70 minutes. #MorningLive #SABCNews https://t.co/bz60W7BhgB

    42001.7K 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

#morninglive#sabcnews#morninglie#morninglivesabc#morninlive

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 4 interactions against 339K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 15,519 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 562 times each, and 0.712% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.166% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 15% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 89 interactions, about 22x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #morninglive, #sabcnews, #morninglie.

What is SABCNews_MorningLive's engagement rate on X?
SABCNews_MorningLive (@MorningLiveSABC) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 339,488 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, SABCNews_MorningLive sits below the 10th percentile of the 157,102 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 @MorningLiveSABC have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @MorningLiveSABC post?
Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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