Mwananchi Newspapers engagement report
@MwananchiNews - 1.1M followers on X
Measured over 200 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 200 original posts, its engagement rate beats 1% of 3,791 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 884 times each, and 0.113% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.081% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 200 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 96% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 667 interactions, about 667x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #tunawezeshataifa, #appstore, #googleplay.
Measured over 200 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #tunawezeshataifa, #appstore, #googleplay.
Compared with accounts its own size
Mwananchi Newspapers's engagement rate beats 1% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 9% 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 under 0.001%, Mwananchi Newspapers sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,759 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.4% |
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 07:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 31, 2026667x their median
Katibu Mkuu wa Chadema, John Mnyika amemaliza kutoa ushahidi wake wa msingi katika kesi ya uhaini inayomkabili Mwenyekiti wa chama hicho, Tundu Lissu, ambapo pamoja na mambo mengine ameieleza Mahakama kuwa maneno yanayodaiwa kutamkwa na Lissu hayawezi kuchukuliwa kuwa ni kosa https://t.co/cduGmzCFmp
- Aug 27, 2026114x their median
Jaji Warioba afichua alichozungumza na Dk Nchimbi kabla, baada ya kujiuzulu https://t.co/fVYtm8GZk9
- Aug 31, 202671x their median
Mnyika atumia hotuba za Mwalimu Nyerere kumtetea Lissu https://t.co/APPtJKayx7
- Aug 26, 202664x their median
Lissu aorodhesha taasisi nyingine zinazompigania aachiwe https://t.co/4cs5jsXRwm
- Aug 29, 202653x their median
Jaji Mkuu wa Tanzania, George Masaju amepishwa Deogratius Ndejembi kuwa Makamu wa Rais. Ndejembi anachukua nafasi ya Dk Emmanuel Nchimbi ambaye alitangaza kujiuzulu na Chama CCM cha Mapinduzi (CCM) kumfukuza uanachama. https://t.co/iZcKZ9mkra
- Aug 29, 202628x their median
Chadema yabaini ‘mkakati’ kuratibu mgogoro ndani ya chama https://t.co/g9LKNeZ9ON
- Aug 31, 202625x their median
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- Aug 31, 202620x their median
*Sintofahamu askari polisi kujinyonga mahabusu, akizikwa Dar* https://t.co/rmivUIrtap
- Aug 25, 202618x their median
Usiwe wa mwisho kujua kilicho muhimu. Pakua app ya #MwanaClick kwenye #GooglePlay ama #AppStore, au tembelea tovuti (https://t.co/1vDmrNpbui) kupata nakala yako ya gazeti la Mwananchi kidijitali. #TunawezeshaTaifa https://t.co/Lr4rptTR0m
- Aug 29, 202616x their median
Mnyika ajitwisha dhamana mkutano Lissu aliodaiwa kufanya uhaini https://t.co/q001eiE8Jk
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 1 interaction against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 200 original posts, its engagement rate beats 1% of 3,791 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 884 times each, and 0.113% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.081% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 200 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 96% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 667 interactions, about 667x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #tunawezeshataifa, #appstore, #googleplay.
- What is Mwananchi Newspapers's engagement rate on X?
- Mwananchi Newspapers (@MwananchiNews) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 200 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,088,654 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Mwananchi Newspapers sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 @MwananchiNews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 1% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 @MwananchiNews post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 6.67 posts per day across the measured window.