NationOnline engagement report
@NationOnlineMw - 245K followers on X
Measured over 50 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 9, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 16 interactions against 245K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 50 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 6,874 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 4.5K times each, and 0.367% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.84% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 50 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 268 interactions, about 17x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #planecrashinquiry, #promo.
Measured over 50 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 9, 2026. Recurring tags: #planecrashinquiry, #promo.
Compared with accounts its own size
NationOnline's engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 24% 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 0.007%, NationOnline sits above the 10th percentile of the 66,536 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.016%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.5% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.7% |
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 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 | 86% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 70% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 86% 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.
- 70% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 131 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 3, 202617x their median
Broken windows, cracking floors, unpainted walls — welcome to Court 2 at Lilongwe Registry, where even the plaster looks like it’s applying for legal aid. Cabinet ministers and other high-profile figures keep walking through these doors. https://t.co/S8bMPWOk1p
- Aug 31, 20265.6x their median
NEWS: National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma) Limited has declared that it will not make a second payment of $403 615.63 (about K700 million) to a Mozambican service provider after hackers diverted the payment. https://t.co/l9x09qgC83
- Aug 25, 20264.4x their median
Today's Front Page https://t.co/M0SckPvxL3 https://t.co/i7g2W0XqVt
- Sep 9, 20263.2x their median
Government has appealed to the private sector to help bridge a K324.8 billion funding gap in its El Niño preparedness plan as Malawi faces heightened food-security risks, particularly in the Southern Region. https://t.co/sowX3qTwk1
- Sep 2, 20263.0x their median
Speaker of Parliament Sameer Suleman has announced the constitution of new joint committees that will look into issues he describes as matters of public interest and which require action by the legislative arm. https://t.co/rmb45tKHZC
- Sep 9, 20262.4x their median
Today's Back Page https://t.co/M0SckPvxL3 https://t.co/KoRi2qTph6
- Sep 5, 20262.3x their median
Minister of Information and Communications Technology Shadric Namalomba has demanded improved performance and greater accountability from parastatals, warning that institutions that fail to deliver results will face corrective action. https://t.co/A6KaL4cZYu
- Aug 26, 20262.3x their median
Retired Brig. Gen. Juvenalis Mtende has told the parliamentary committee investigating the Chikangawa crash that he trained the pilot in command, the late Col. Owen Sambalopa, rating him as an average student who later improved #PlaneCrashInquiry https://t.co/5XF89cLvqM
- Aug 25, 20262.2x their median
Today's Back Page https://t.co/M0SckPvxL3 https://t.co/4XK8tNTDCi
- Aug 23, 20262.2x their median
80% men not biological fathers to their ‘children’ https://t.co/zkBQ78pkbw
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 16 interactions against 245K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 50 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 6,874 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 4.5K times each, and 0.367% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.84% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 50 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 268 interactions, about 17x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #planecrashinquiry, #promo.
- What is NationOnline's engagement rate on X?
- NationOnline (@NationOnlineMw) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 50 original posts from the last 30 days against 244,714 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, NationOnline sits above the 10th percentile of the 66,536 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 @NationOnlineMw have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @NationOnlineMw post?
- Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.53 posts per day across the measured window.