Mzwanele Manyi MP engagement report
@MzwaneleManyi - 501K followers on X
Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 20, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 190 interactions against 501K followers, an engagement rate of 0.038%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 20,444 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 23K times each, and 0.829% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.58% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 64x its own typical post.
Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 20, 2026. Recurring tag: #gwazamkhontogwaza.
Compared with accounts its own size
Mzwanele Manyi MP's engagement rate beats 55% 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 42% 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 0.038%, Mzwanele Manyi MP sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,991 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.68% |
| 90th percentile | 2.56% |
| 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 17:00 UTC, and Sunday 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 | 61% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 17% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 61% 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.
- 17% 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 200 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
- Oct 6, 202664x their median
How can any government serious about jobs let in so many asylum seekers. Once they get their paperwork, they qualify for grants, they use the clinics, they send their children to government schools. All paid for by the abused South African taxpayer. https://t.co/SxdCSgJ5RR
- Oct 15, 202622x their median
Dear @IECSouthAfrica Will the elections be FREE & FAIR if the ANC is the ONLY party given given an extension to resubmit when other parties are not afforded the same dispensation?
- Aug 10, 202620x their median
Tso Siyabonga ndoda 👏🏻👏🏻❤️ https://t.co/8oc00rWLTP
- Aug 28, 202616x their median
#UWCHonoraryDoctorates | The University of the Western Cape honours Advocate @HassimAdila, recognising her distinguished contribution to constitutional law, human rights and the pursuit of social justice. #IAmUWC https://t.co/H3mJC2jCLq
- Feb 27, 202013x their median
Tokyo Sexwale: Private companies buy ANC Conference. Private people became clever, if ANC splits, e.g. Terror, PAC they dry up. What's the best way, buy ANC. Nasrec was a shocker, where money was used to buy conference. https://t.co/sFgEK9grFG
- Oct 17, 202614x their median
The Constitutional Court judgment is WRONG on the asylum seekers matter. Anybody that enters any country illegally must in the 1st instance be arrested. Processing that person should happen whilst that person is in custody. If that person doesn't qualify, deportation with a permanent ban should follow. I submit.
- Aug 29, 202612x their median
“President, please look after my family, because now I will be arresting corrupt politicians and corrupt tenderpreneurs. Every house that sells drugs must know that this will no longer be happening under my watch,” says Ekurhuleni's mayoral candidate Cde Thulani Shongwe. https://t.co/p5pHtxQ7k2
- Sep 17, 202610x their median
NEWS: The Provincial Secretary of the ANC in the Eastern Cape, Lulama Ngcukaitobi, is suing Fikile Mbalula for falsely claiming that he was behind the debacle in registration of councillor candidates in the province - KZN Tonight Podcast https://t.co/y09sfAmaF2
- Aug 4, 20269.9x their median
H.E President Zuma has spoken. https://t.co/55fM9LczpS
- Aug 15, 20267.3x their median
Her submission buried Minister Mchunu. Political interference. https://t.co/qz1XNFRezO
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 190 interactions against 501K followers, an engagement rate of 0.038%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 20,444 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 23K times each, and 0.829% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.58% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 64x its own typical post.
- What is Mzwanele Manyi MP's engagement rate on X?
- Mzwanele Manyi MP (@MzwaneleManyi) has an engagement rate of 0.038%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 500,812 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.038%, Mzwanele Manyi MP sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,991 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 @MzwaneleManyi have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @MzwaneleManyi post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.1 posts per day across the measured window.