News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ engagement report
@News24 - 6.6M followers on X
Measured over 198 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 19 interactions against 6.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 198 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 982 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 19K times each, and 0.101% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.283% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 198 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 92% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 124x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #backtgrsa, #beforeyouclick, #chamberlainhardware.
Measured over 198 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026. Recurring tags: #backtgrsa, #beforeyouclick, #chamberlainhardware.
Compared with accounts its own size
News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ's engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (982 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 9% 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 under 0.001%, News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ sits below the 10th percentile of the 9,668 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.006%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.006% |
| 50th percentile | 0.046% |
| 75th percentile | 0.318% |
| 90th percentile | 2.67% |
| 99th percentile | 366.2% |
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 10:00 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 | 0% | 14K |
| 01:00 UTC | +3% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 16K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 28K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 29K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 23K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 21K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 16K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +9% | 56K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 93K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 77K |
| Thursday | -3% | 70K |
| Friday | -6% | 71K |
| Saturday | +2% | 62K |
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 | 15% of posts | +79% | +73% to +84% | 5.7K |
| Outbound link | 92% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.0K |
| Typical length | - | -7% | -8% to -5% | 8.9K |
- 15% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 92% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% 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 124 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 7% 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
- Aug 16, 2026124x their median
R1.8bn firefighting contract awarded to company with no experience fighting fires https://t.co/dr4NuwaQLg
- Aug 14, 202684x their median
Western Cape municipalities sitting on R1.76bn in irregular expenditure https://t.co/HBI7H3Jzbi
- Aug 20, 202680x their median
Author Tlotlo Tsheka, 7, dies after sudden illness, leaving a legacy beyond her years https://t.co/tU1EwMFxPy
- Aug 17, 202667x their median
LIVE | 'Morgan Maumela is my friend and a person who i have previously conducted business with' - Matlala https://t.co/QZMZe097vz https://t.co/q32b8FNIqj
- Aug 14, 202666x their median
Pilchards with herpes? Probe into mass sardine deaths on the West Coast finds virus https://t.co/LXYZbTUqnT
- Aug 18, 202660x their median
โHey Papa Joe!โ: How Malemaโs cigarette blessers got help from his taxi tycoon associate https://t.co/AXuHYYgrqs
- Aug 16, 202658x their median
Boyfriend of murdered St Stithians girl was allegedly โcontrollingโ and โjealousโ https://t.co/3z3S4mUhq6
- Aug 18, 202650x their median
Parliament to summon 4 intermediaries that scored R559m from NSFAS https://t.co/OrXk6wF9ik
- Aug 14, 202649x their median
JUST IN | High Court suspends appointment of NSFAS administrator https://t.co/NVEolNoGft
- Aug 16, 202638x their median
Toilet tenders: Former Malema driver rakes in millions after Ekurhuleni payday https://t.co/MdY9VhBYKj
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 19 interactions against 6.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 198 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 982 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 19K times each, and 0.101% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.283% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 198 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 92% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 124x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #backtgrsa, #beforeyouclick, #chamberlainhardware.
- What is News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ's engagement rate on X?
- News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ (@News24) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 198 original posts from the last 30 days against 6,640,272 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ sits below the 10th percentile of the 9,668 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 @News24 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (982 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 @News24 post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 6.83 posts per day across the measured window.