Democratic Alliance engagement report
@Our_DA - 742K followers on X
Measured over 90 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 48 interactions against 742K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 90 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 2.5K times each, and 1.95% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.336% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 90 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 727 interactions, about 15x its own typical post.
Measured over 90 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026. Recurring tag: #incaseyoumissedit.
Compared with accounts its own size
Democratic Alliance's engagement rate beats 28% 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 66% 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 0.006%, Democratic Alliance sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 08:00 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.
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 | 99% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 53% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 99% 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.
- 53% 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 344 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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 7, 202615x their median
๐จWe have some BIG news! For the first time ever, the KZN Department of Public Works and Infrastructure has received a clean audit. For years, the department failed to account properly for how it spent taxpayersโ money but in under two years, the DAโs Martin Meyer has turned that around. ๐ This is what accountable government looks like, an example of the #DAdifference in action!
- Aug 24, 202613x their median
No calling for the TV ref this week, Gayton. ๐โฝ R31 million spent sending 151 people to the World Cup. Another R20 million handed over for Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology that never materialised. ๐ค ๐ Tomorrow, the DA will push for answers: Where did the money go? Who got it? And what did South African taxpayers get in return? Public money must deliver public good. The DA will hold those responsible to account.
- Aug 30, 202611x their median
๐จ R1.2 million paid to an official sitting in jail. You cannot make this up. It was revealed through a DA question to the Gauteng Legislature by DA Ekurhuleni Mayoral Candidate Khathu, that Julius Mkhwanazi has earned R1.2 million from Ekurhuleni ratepayers while behind bars. Residents work hard for their money. It should be spent on delivering services, not paying officials who are sitting in jail. ๐๏ธ The DA will keep fighting corruption and holding those responsible to account, read more: https://t.co/gJ2gpQzN5P
- Aug 23, 20269.2x their median
๐จ South Africans deserve a fair shot not jobs for political insiders. The DA will not let Gayton McKenzie escape the rules and the law on this disgraceful cadre deployment. ๐ฟ๐ฆ Government must work for all, not just the connected. https://t.co/F6ZTpaNfSB
- Sep 9, 20268.9x their median
โฐ ANC: late for a very important date. The DA submitted candidates in all 257 municipalities on time. The ANC didnโt. ๐คท Now they want the courts to rescue them from their own incompetence. Deadlines are deadlines. The DA has filed papers to oppose the ANCโs attempt to get special treatment. ๐ Read more: https://t.co/D05YyugoeJ
- Aug 17, 20268.1x their median
๐จDaybreak Foods collapsed, leaving over 1,500 people without jobs and more than 350,000 chickens having to be put down. Now new evidence has raised serious questions about where the money went, who benefited and why warnings were allegedly ignored. The DA is calling on President Ramaphosa to authorise an investigation into the collapse of Daybreak Foods and ensure that those responsible are held accountable. ๐๏ธRead more: https://t.co/R5EJE1O2UV
- Sep 4, 20267.3x their median
๐ฆRobots are broken but posters are up. Priorities, neh? ๐คทโโ๏ธ This is what Emfuleni residents are being asked to accept after years of ANC governance.๐ Kingsol Chabalala does not believe that broken infrastructure should be the norm.โ๏ธโ๐ฅ Emfuleni deserves better. Only the DA has a proven plan to get your municipality working again.๐ Read more: https://t.co/0NBHvCTOEq
- Sep 4, 20266.0x their median
๐๐คข You can literally smell the difference. ANC-led eThekwini vs DA-run Mossel Bay, one is drowning in failing services, sewage spills and mismanagement, while the other shows what a municipality can achieve when it is properly managed and held accountable. ๐ The DA is getting towns and cities working for all: https://t.co/IFUKNojxvG
- Sep 25, 20265.8x their median
SPOTTED in Tshwane. ๐๐ธ R777 million in water-tanker invoices in 2025. That should have been used to fix the pipes! On 4 November, Tshwane residents will have their say on who runs their city. Vote DA ๐ณ๏ธ https://t.co/QxdUFRCgLr
- Aug 22, 20265.1x their median
๐ฟ๐ฆ Operation New Broom hit the streets of Pretoria, with dozens of undocumented foreign nationals arrested for lawful deportation. Under DA Minister Leon Schreiber, Home Affairs is enforcing our immigration laws and restoring the rule of law as our Constitution requires. https://t.co/LCMlekjSRS
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
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 48 interactions against 742K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 90 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 2.5K times each, and 1.95% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.336% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 90 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 727 interactions, about 15x its own typical post.
- What is Democratic Alliance's engagement rate on X?
- Democratic Alliance (@Our_DA) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 90 original posts from the last 30 days against 741,575 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.006%, Democratic Alliance sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 @Our_DA have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 28% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @Our_DA post?
- Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.23 posts per day across the measured window.