Mzansi Magic engagement report
@Mzansimagic - 891K followers on X
Measured over 90 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 39 interactions against 891K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 90 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% 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 14K times each, and 0.285% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.54% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 90 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 33x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #inimbamzansi, #kwababamzansi, #nyalaomzansi.
Measured over 90 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026. Recurring tags: #inimbamzansi, #kwababamzansi, #nyalaomzansi.
Compared with accounts its own size
Mzansi Magic's engagement rate beats 24% 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 20% 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 0.004%, Mzansi Magic sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 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 | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 18:00 UTC, and Friday 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 | 88% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 8% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 88% 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 165 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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
- Sep 15, 202633x their median
Ushilo uZwe ukuthi uzowakha umuzi with MaMotaung and now, that dream is becoming a reality. 🥳👶🏾🍼 Halala ku bazali. ❤️ #KwaBabaMzansi https://t.co/etexk5jc3A
- Aug 28, 202621x their median
The saxophones are getting louder for Sydney. 🎷 Mawethu’s relationship is tested, and a plot twist is headed Thumeka’s way. The mgowo continues next week. 🔥 #InimbaMzansi https://t.co/KUY6P4v4NF
- Aug 21, 202620x their median
Yoh, akukho cute at all. 😭💔 Thumeka escalates matters with Zethu, while Laz and Zoleka’s marriage has everyone talking. Watch #InimbaMzansi weekdays at 20:30. https://t.co/qUDcknSQCJ
- Sep 18, 202620x their median
MaThandz and Thulani are going from bad to worse. 😭 Sydney’s world is falling apart, while Qhawe is going the extra mile for the rents. 🥰 #InimbaMzansi weekdays at 20:30. https://t.co/wen7YvNGvl
- Sep 4, 202618x their median
Zwelakhe has decided uk'thatha umuntu wake and build his own legacy. 🤭 While Dumisani faces indaba enkulu. 😬 Watch #KwaBabaMzansi weekdays at 19:30. https://t.co/TCjzecpFkO
- Sep 1, 202615x their median
Hlathi has had ENOUGH! 😭 He’s drawing a line in the sand and making it clear that he won't tolerate anymore. 👀 #InimbaMzansi https://t.co/Vl0LtuFfRE
- Sep 18, 202614x their median
TLB says not tomorrow ke manje, all the playing at Mkhize Logistics ends now! 🔥 Don't miss #KwaBabaMzansi tonight at 19:30. https://t.co/N6soyJks7z
- Aug 20, 202612x their median
Indlu iyatsha and we don't know if they can come back from this.😭💔 Catch up with #InimbaMzansi on @DStv Stream. https://t.co/1nYcs9HkQT https://t.co/7uYNLvWwLG
- Sep 18, 202612x their median
The door to the truth that Zwelakhe has been wanting is finally open. 🥺 Ngapha uMhlaba usindwa umshado. 😩 Watch it all unfold on #KwaBabaMzansi weekdays at 19:30. https://t.co/58YkOgRgYH
- Sep 2, 202611x their median
Umshado awukapholi kodwa izinkinga are on the horizon! 🙆♀️ Catch #IzinganeZeSthembu this Thursday at 20:00, only on (Ch. 161). https://t.co/m9UVLwPAe5
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 39 interactions against 891K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 90 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% 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 14K times each, and 0.285% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.54% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 90 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 33x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #inimbamzansi, #kwababamzansi, #nyalaomzansi.
- What is Mzansi Magic's engagement rate on X?
- Mzansi Magic (@Mzansimagic) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 90 original posts from the last 30 days against 890,507 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, Mzansi Magic sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 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 @Mzansimagic have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 24% 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 @Mzansimagic post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 6 posts per day across the measured window.