Newzroom Afrika engagement report
@Newzroom405 - 938K followers on X
Measured over 54 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 20, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 11 interactions against 938K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 54 original posts, its engagement rate beats 12% of 1,003 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 5.0K times each, and 0.218% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.537% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 54 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 43% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 554 interactions, about 50x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #newzroom405, #madlangacommission, #amreport405.
Measured over 54 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 20, 2026. Recurring tags: #newzroom405, #madlangacommission, #amreport405.
Compared with accounts its own size
Newzroom Afrika's engagement rate beats 12% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 5 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 15% 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 0.001%, Newzroom Afrika sits above the 10th percentile of the 10,326 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.007%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.048% |
| 75th percentile | 0.321% |
| 90th percentile | 2.48% |
| 99th percentile | 354.0% |
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 07:00 UTC, and Thursday 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% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 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% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | 87% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 43% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | -5% | -7% to -4% | 7.9K |
- 87% 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.
- 43% 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 260 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters run 5% 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 20, 202650x their median
[WATCH] "Mr Adams, I really can't keep up with the various versions that you are giving," says #MadlangaCommission evidence leader Adv. Lee Segeels-Ncube during Fadiel Adams' cross-examination regarding how he came into contact with IDAC. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/bj9ANSLHfL
- Aug 20, 202638x their median
[BREAKING NEWS] Stuart Scharnick arrested outside the #MadlangaCommission in Pretoria for alleged intimidation of a journalist. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/H98XhYB2Zg
- Aug 20, 202624x their median
[WATCH] “I was wrong… I don't think that was in the envelope,” Fadiel Adams admits there was nothing in the alleged envelope he received which related to Gen. Lushaba’s housebreaking issue. Adams says he got the information regading the incident from either Patricia Mashale or Mary de Haas. #MadlangaCommission
- Aug 20, 202622x their median
[WATCH] “No Mr Adams, you cannot rely on a dead man every time, it's unacceptable,” #MadlangaCommission evidence leader Adv. Lee Segeels-Ncube tells the MP on the witness stand. https://t.co/K6s2skTzGz
- Aug 20, 202614x their median
[WATCH] #Newzroom405's @JuniourKhumalo_ speaks to Sowetan journalist @Moloi_Herman1. Moloi was allegedly intimidated by NCC leader Fadiel Adams’ associate Stuart Scharnick at the Madlanga Commission. https://t.co/yUNjkJOrOx
- Aug 19, 202611x their median
[WATCH] Fadiel Adams is quizzed about the chronology of events from when he "discovered" top secret documents, and opening multiple cases (across different provincial jurisdictions) within a short space of time after claiming his initial dockets were intercepted. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/pUHWuZoSbW
- Aug 20, 202611x their median
ATM parliamentary leader and Section 89 Impeachment Committee member Vuyolwethu Zungula has dismissed President Cyril Ramaphosa's objection to the nomination of Advocate Griffiths Madonsela as evidence leader of the committee over a conflict of interest. He says the president's objections were brought to the fore before Madonsela's nomination. Zungula says Ramaphosa must respect black professionals. Watch: https://t.co/CKp4J9Urq7 #Newzroom405
- Aug 19, 202611x their median
[BREAKING NEWS] DA removes MP Mark Burke from Parliamentary finance committees. This comes amid a SARB probe into the company he founded. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/098GRuw4cF
- Aug 20, 20269.4x their median
[WATCH] Suspended MP Fadiel Adams says DA MP Ian Cameron “moved heaven and earth” to block Adams from testifying before Parliament's SAPS ad hoc committee inquiry. #MadlangaCommission https://t.co/aC0qwZjvbX
- Aug 20, 20268.8x their median
[WATCH] "In my view, it was meant as a term of respect," suspended MP Fadiel Adams apologises to Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga for referring to him as "Chief". #MadlangaCommission https://t.co/pSbTVitfjh
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 11 interactions against 938K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 54 original posts, its engagement rate beats 12% of 1,003 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 5.0K times each, and 0.218% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.537% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 54 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 43% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 554 interactions, about 50x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #newzroom405, #madlangacommission, #amreport405.
- What is Newzroom Afrika's engagement rate on X?
- Newzroom Afrika (@Newzroom405) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 54 original posts from the last 30 days against 938,294 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Newzroom Afrika sits above the 10th percentile of the 10,326 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 @Newzroom405 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 12% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 @Newzroom405 post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.93 posts per day across the measured window.