Daily Nation engagement report
@NationAfrica - 4.3M followers on X
Measured over 523 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 4.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 523 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% of 3,774 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 3.2K times each, and 0.063% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.074% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 17.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 523 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 91% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 355 interactions, about 178x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #healthynation, #nationgender, #earthwise.
Measured over 523 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #healthynation, #nationgender, #earthwise.
Compared with accounts its own size
Daily Nation's engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 5% 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%, Daily Nation sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 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% | 53K |
| 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% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 2026178x their median
Governor Orengo: Violence witnessed in Homa Bay during Linda Mwananchi rally is a replica of the Rwandan genocide https://t.co/5M5TnVxrfR
- Aug 18, 2026146x their median
Plans to disrupt the Linda Mwananchi rally in Homa Bay on Sunday were reportedly set in motion days earlier, with politicians mobilising youths and setting up a network to coordinate attacks by the goons. The goons who were deployed in an attempt to block leaders of the breakaway ODM faction from entry into the county, and who subsequently attacked the convoy along the routes, were each reportedly paid between Sh2,000 and Sh4, 000. Read more: https://t.co/Aflc8eGYQm
- Aug 19, 2026143x their median
To many outsiders, Abdi appears to be an ordinary resident of Homa Bay Town. The tall, well-built man is often seen walking through the town, casually interacting with residents. But beneath that unassuming exterior is a figure whom some residents and people familiar with his activities describe as an influential mobiliser among groups of youths in Homa Bay. People who know him allege that he plays a role in organising youths during political meetings, including giving instructions on what they should do before, during and after political gatherings. Read more: https://t.co/0Z2DkyQHHp
- Aug 24, 2026126x their median
Gachagua: I lost my job after defending Gen Zs following June 25 protests. I stood with our young people. I'm asking the youth of this country to also make a sacrifice for me. https://t.co/EDpgyoXNyp
- Aug 19, 2026118x their median
When a stranger walked into the home of Evelyn Mukiri Mbaabu in Chabuene village, Meru County, at about 7pm on August 7 and asked for water, she gladly offered him a drink and even invited him to have supper. In her characteristic generosity, the 65-year-old quickly sent her teenage grandson to fetch water from the main house as the visitor made himself comfortable outside. According to a police report, her grandson was away fetching water when he was jolted by his grandmother’s screams. “Upon rushing back to the kitchen, he found the victim lying in a pool of blood with cuts on her forehead and at the back of the head. The man is said to have also hit the boy on his arm with the machete before fleeing,” the police report states. Read more: https://t.co/CwiQTvSDQR
- Aug 18, 2026104x their median
The suspects had a lot of money. They lived in an apartment in Kilimani, which they declared to immigration officials upon entry into Kenya. They loved to spend their money on holidays in destinations like Diani and Samburu, fine wining and dining to dressing in expensive clothes. The two lived large. And they loved to flaunt their lavish lifestyle to their fans and followers on Instagram. But it was not just fans following their social media activities. British authorities, desperate to arrest the two, were also following them. Read more: https://t.co/mDYYSne1n1
- Aug 18, 202679x their median
Governor Natembeya recounts events of Homa Bay attack, says they narrowly escaped death https://t.co/U5cC7ij5xB
- Aug 24, 202675x their median
Senate Speaker Kingi: Hatutampigia Ruto kwa sababu eti tunampenda, ni kwa sababu yeye anatupenda https://t.co/exaxLTa99Z
- Aug 26, 202650x their median
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- Aug 24, 202645x their median
Rigathi Gachagua: There's no conflict whatsoever between the Luo nation and Mt Kenya...The man who mentored me into leadership is a Luo man — Samuel Eric Oreta...Peter Raburu taught me a lot. I'll tour Siaya, Migori, Homa Bay and Kisumu Dala...don't try to come between me and the Luo nation.
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 2 interactions against 4.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 523 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% of 3,774 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 3.2K times each, and 0.063% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.074% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 17.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 523 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 91% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 355 interactions, about 178x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #healthynation, #nationgender, #earthwise.
- What is Daily Nation's engagement rate on X?
- Daily Nation (@NationAfrica) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 523 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,269,656 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0%, Daily Nation sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @NationAfrica have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @NationAfrica post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 17.47 posts per day across the measured window.