NYDARSA engagement report
@NYDARSA - 162K followers on X
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 21, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 162K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% 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 1.3K times each, and 0.298% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.828% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 79 interactions, about 20x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fundingdreamsempoweringfutures, #nsfas2027.
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 21, 2026. Recurring tags: #fundingdreamsempoweringfutures, #nsfas2027.
Compared with accounts its own size
NYDARSA's engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 18% 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%, NYDARSA sits below the 10th percentile of the 158,172 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.1% |
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 09:00 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% | 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 34% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 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.
- 34% 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 688 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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 16, 202620x their median
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- Sep 11, 202619x their median
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- Sep 11, 202617x their median
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- Sep 15, 202612x their median
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- Sep 15, 202611x their median
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- Sep 11, 20267.0x their median
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- Sep 15, 20266.3x their median
TAKEOFF TUESDAY The Free State Provincial Treasury in collaboration with FASSET, is inviting suitably qualified and unemployed South African graduates to apply for its 24-month Graduate Internship Programme. STUDY AREAS INCLUDE: • Accounting • Internal Auditing • Finance • Economics • Information Technology • Data Science • Construction Project Management • Compliance and Risk Management • https://t.co/tCh7mllfeP Law Stipend: R8 174.75 per month Centre: Bloemfontein Apply, at: https://t.co/PgRoeZEP67 Closing date: 18 September 2026 #TakeoffTuesday #JobSeekersSA #Internship #FreeState #ApplyNow #SouthAfrica
- Sep 15, 20264.5x their median
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- Sep 20, 20264.0x their median
NSFAS 2027 applications are officially OPEN! Dream big, apply smart, and take the first step toward the future you deserve. Funding your studies could be just one application away. Don't wait for the deadline; apply today! #NSFAS2027 #FundingDreamsEmpoweringFutures #YourFutureStartsHere #myNSFAS
- Sep 17, 20263.8x their median
TESTIMONIAL THURSDAY Levy Thapelo Matjila from Mafikeng in the North West, is the founder of Send Me Now Logistics. His business specialises in food delivery and local courier services. The 33-year-old identified a significant gap in reliable delivery options within his community. With support from the NYDA, he received his first Grant of R43 830 in 2022, which allowed him to enhance the operational capacity of his business. A subsequent Grant of R99 523.15 in 2025 further enabled him to invest in essential equipment and software, leading to increased revenue. Send Me Now Logistics employs four permanent staff members and continues to expand its services across Mmabatho, Mafikeng, and surrounding areas. Levy’s commitment to entrepreneurship is not only about business growth, but creating job opportunities and positively impacting his community. This young man plans to expand his operations beyond the North West Province. His journey exemplifies how strategic support and dedication can transform a small startup into a successful enterprise. #NYDA #TestimonialThursday #Funding #SouthAfrica
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 4 interactions against 162K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% 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 1.3K times each, and 0.298% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.828% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 79 interactions, about 20x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fundingdreamsempoweringfutures, #nsfas2027.
- What is NYDARSA's engagement rate on X?
- NYDARSA (@NYDARSA) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 59 original posts from the last 30 days against 161,989 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, NYDARSA sits below the 10th percentile of the 158,172 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 @NYDARSA have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 10% 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 @NYDARSA post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.