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Oliver Mathenge engagement report

@OliverMathenge - 559K followers on X

Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 13, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 559K followers
Per impression
0.295%
2.0K views on a typical post
Reach
0.36%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
6
interactions (median)
Saved
0.049%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.97/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
03:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 559K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 12% of 20,444 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 2.0K times each, and 0.295% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.363% 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, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video and 47% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 286 interactions, about 48x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #thechronicleweekly, #budgetwatch.

Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 13, 2026. Recurring tags: #thechronicleweekly, #budgetwatch.

Compared with accounts its own size

Oliver Mathenge's engagement rate beats 12% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 21% 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%, Oliver Mathenge sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.679%
p902.56%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,582 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,893 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.679%
90th percentile2.56%
99th percentile82.4%

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 03:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 03:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 03:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video87% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link47% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 87% 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.
  • 47% 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 257 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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 21, 202648x their median

    The Safaricom Ad that changed the mobile telephony landscape. https://t.co/MVfkLFry2N

    196799216K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 202634x their median

    A railway is pushing into Western Kenya. A major highway is being rebuilt from Rironi towards Mau Summit. Trade corridors are being reshaped. New economic possibilities are opening. But in Kenya, even progress quickly becomes politics. As 2027 draws closer, are we becoming so consumed by who gets the credit that we are failing to ask the more important question: What could all this infrastructure actually do for Kenya? #TheChronicleWeekly Issue 14 out on Monday.

    10349381337K viewsView on X
  • Jul 15, 202622x their median

    Whether you’re a government agency, business, NGO, or individual, your message matters. We make sure it lands. https://t.co/TY0pbmKgRG

    8124005.5K viewsView on X
  • Apr 27, 202116x their median

    We still need the courts to clarify if, on August 10, 2021, Parliament stands dissolved in line with Article 101. The 5th year since 2017 poll starts on Aug 8, 2021. Term of Parliament ends at the next election held on the 2nd Tuesday of August in the 5th year - August 10, 2021.

    8431122View on X
  • Sep 30, 202619x their median

    From today, the question is no longer whether Lamu can be imagined as an industrial and logistics hub. Kenya has now put that ambition on the ground. The harder question is what the country will build around it, and whether the people who have lived with Lamu’s marginalisation for generations will have a meaningful stake in the economy that follows. https://t.co/suX1svVs3W

    7829508.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 202614x their median

    The 1948 colonial master plan called for a ring railway and a central business district rail tunnel. The 1972 Nairobi Metropolitan Growth Strategy proposed the same tunnel concept, calling mass rapid transit “the backbone of a sustainable metropolitan transport network.” The 2014 Nairobi Urban Integrated Plan repeated the diagnosis almost word for word. None of the three was built. Read More: https://t.co/UePJbCqn9Q

    5130408.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 20269.8x their median

    The framing in Nairobi has been unambiguous: another Kenyan flag planted at UN headquarters, following Monica Juma’s appointment as Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime earlier this year. https://t.co/r4KwWpyJOA

    3817404.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 27, 20265.0x their median

    Ruto kept repeating, ‘Africa doesn’t come to plead.’ But what exactly was Kenya asking for at UNGA 81? And back home: • Why is milk disappearing from shelves? • What does the opposition actually want to do with power? • Is Kenya building a basketball ecosystem or simply announcing projects? #TheChronicleWeekly | Issue 17 Out Monday, September 28.

    1810205.3K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20264.5x their median

    Interesting take on mining in Africa with a focus on Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto left Bougainville unrepaired for thirty-seven years. The same pattern is unfolding in Madagascar and may now threaten Guinea and Mozambique as well. https://t.co/3NcdVHKI1M

    198002.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20264.3x their median

    Inside #TheChronicleWeekly this week: None of this is a verdict. The railway isn’t finished. The road is barely a third built. What we’re arguing is narrower: that the years between groundbreaking and commissioning are exactly the years Kenya stops paying attention, and exactly the years the real economic case gets made or lost. https://t.co/JjdFz9xF5n

    178102.0K viewsView on X

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

#thechronicleweekly#budgetwatch

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 6 interactions against 559K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 12% of 20,444 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 2.0K times each, and 0.295% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.363% 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, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video and 47% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 286 interactions, about 48x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #thechronicleweekly, #budgetwatch.

What is Oliver Mathenge's engagement rate on X?
Oliver Mathenge (@OliverMathenge) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 559,226 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Oliver Mathenge sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,582 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 @OliverMathenge have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 12% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @OliverMathenge post?
Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.97 posts per day across the measured window.

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