Zimbabwe Republic Police engagement report
@PoliceZimbabwe - 439K followers on X
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 76 interactions against 439K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% of 3,829 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 30K times each, and 0.257% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.77% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 26% carry an image or video and 24% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 453 interactions, about 6.0x its own typical post.
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Zimbabwe Republic Police's engagement rate beats 39% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 20% 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 0.017%, Zimbabwe Republic Police sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,071 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.3% |
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 16:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 81K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 234K |
| Monday | 0% | 294K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 288K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 247K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 15, 20266.0x their median
Breaking News ZRP update as of 2000 hours tonight. The Kariba RIDA boat accident death toll is now 72 after the recovery of 3 more bodies late on the 15th of August 2026. Meanwhile the identification of the bodies recovered today is in progress.
- Aug 16, 20265.9x their median
ZRP update as at 1400 hours today. The Kariba RIDA boat accident death toll is now 80 following the recovery of eight more bodies on 16th August 2026.
- Aug 16, 20265.6x their median
Kariba RIDA death toll update The ZRP reports that the death toll is now 84 after the recovery of four bodies from the lake this afternoon. The Police confirm that search efforts are still under way in a bid to recover victims identified as missing.
- Aug 17, 20263.9x their median
https://t.co/ugyPzQrfNg
- Aug 18, 20262.8x their median
Reference is made to an incident that went viral on social media involving a ZRP police officer and a City of Harare security personnel. The public is advised that the constable involved was arrested and is now facing both criminal and disciplinary charges. More details will be released on 19/08/26.
- Aug 25, 20262.8x their median
The ZRP has acquired the latest technological advanced VSC machines (QDE) to assist the Police’s Forensic Science Directorate and Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to detect fake Identity Cards (IDs), Passports, counterfeit documents, fraudulent activities through use of false signatures and other criminal activities. #No to fraudulent activities in the country.
- Aug 23, 20262.7x their median
The ZRP confirms a fatal road traffic accident which occurred at the 285 kilometre peg along Mutare–Masvingo Road on 22/08/26 at around 1740 hours. A motorist who was driving a Nissan March carrying eight passengers towards Mutare allegedly lost control of the vehicle, veered off the road to the right and struck a tree before overturning once. As a result of the crash, three passengers died on the spot, while six others, including the driver, sustained injuries. The bodies of the deceased were conveyed to Masvingo Provincial Hospital for postmortem examinations.
- Aug 15, 20261.9x their median
The ZRP advises Zimbabweans and relevant stakeholders that the death toll in the Kariba RIDA boat accident is now 69 following the recovery of 23 bodies on 15/08/ 2026.
- Aug 18, 20261.8x their median
Reference is made to the ZRP press statement released on 18/08/26 regarding the update on the Kariba RIDA boat accident. The death toll is now 94. The ZRP’s deployment of search teams will continue as efforts to locate any missing persons or bodies continue.
- Aug 26, 20261.8x their median
The ZRP confirms the arrest and subsequent appearance in court of Kariba RIDA District Coordinator, Ignatius Chiome (49) on criminal charges of Culpable Homicide. More details will be availed in due course.
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 76 interactions against 439K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% of 3,829 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 30K times each, and 0.257% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.77% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 26% carry an image or video and 24% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 453 interactions, about 6.0x its own typical post.
- What is Zimbabwe Republic Police's engagement rate on X?
- Zimbabwe Republic Police (@PoliceZimbabwe) has an engagement rate of 0.017%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 439,293 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.017%, Zimbabwe Republic Police sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,071 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 @PoliceZimbabwe have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 39% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 @PoliceZimbabwe post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.83 posts per day across the measured window.