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Public Protector South Africa engagement report

@PublicProtector - 515K followers on X

Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 18, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 515K followers
Per impression
0.223%
1.8K views on a typical post
Reach
0.35%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
4
interactions (median)
Saved
0.028%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.13/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
10:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 515K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% 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 1.8K times each, and 0.223% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.348% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% 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 22 posts sampled, 95% carry an image or video and 32% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 827 interactions, about 207x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #accountability, #ethics, #governance.

Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 18, 2026. Recurring tags: #accountability, #ethics, #governance.

Compared with accounts its own size

Public Protector South Africa's engagement rate beats 10% 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 16% 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%, Public Protector South Africa sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,694 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%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,694 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,880 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 percentile0.677%
90th percentile2.55%
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 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.

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: 10:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 10:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video95% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link32% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 95% 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.
  • 32% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 182 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

  • Oct 13, 2026207x their median

    Public Protector South Africa (PPSA) achieves clean audit with 100 percent performance, Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka tells 8th Social Justice summit #ethics #accountability #integrity #governance #leadership https://t.co/RqStKjR0Em

    2005146710969K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 202646x their median

    #MyPrideMyIdentity https://t.co/ijQb6wxqHP

    4371062979K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 202641x their median

    #SIUWorkingForYou| The Head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), Mr Leonard Lekgetho, will hold a media briefing on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, to provide an update and release the final report on allegations of a fraudulent transfer of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality’s vacant land to private hands.

    100534536K viewsView on X
  • Oct 15, 202626x their median

    ‘IT’S LIKE CONCEALING A DEAD BODY’: PUBLIC PROTECTOR CENSURES UNETHICAL STATE LEGAL ADVISORS Public Protector Adv. Kholeka Gcaleka has urged legal advisors in the public sector to be ethical in their dealings with accountability bodies, cautioning that failure to do so could https://t.co/RKYbNL51ZQ

    491534714K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 202622x their median

    WATCH | Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka says there's a need to enforce culture in the country. She was speaking at the St Paul African Apostolic Church Annual Feast in Moletsane, Soweto. https://t.co/cnRY6xgqk5

    7385138K viewsView on X
  • Oct 7, 202619x their median

    The PPSA joins the Phasiwe family and the country at large in mourning the passing of our former Spokesperson and Head of Communication, Mr Khulu Phasiwe. The PPSA extends its heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. May his soul rest in peace! https://t.co/LKxZqVGCIn

    5814208.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 202615x their median

    🙏🥹Humbled by the “thank-you note” Section 182(4) of the Constitution, the Public Protector MUST be accessible to all persons and communities. https://t.co/DVs9S6UvMm

    4388114K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 202614x their median

    Happy International Left-Handers Day https://t.co/vgsQWcDGJ4

    33126511K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202613x their median

    📢 VACANCIES ALERT 📅 Closing Date: 18 September 2026 📍 Location: North West, Mafikeng Provincial Office Northern Cape, Kimberley Office 📌 Apply here: https://t.co/aNuUU7eRbB https://t.co/OVQCPGAAMs

    27231011K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 202612x their median

    This can't be true 🙆🙆🙆🙆🙆 @PublicProtector https://t.co/a5C9MP7mwG

    22223152K 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

#accountability#ethics#governance#integrity#leadership

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 4 interactions against 515K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% 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 1.8K times each, and 0.223% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.348% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% 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 22 posts sampled, 95% carry an image or video and 32% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 827 interactions, about 207x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #accountability, #ethics, #governance.

What is Public Protector South Africa's engagement rate on X?
Public Protector South Africa (@PublicProtector) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 22 original posts from the last 30 days against 515,223 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Public Protector South Africa sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,694 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 @PublicProtector have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 10% 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 @PublicProtector post?
Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.13 posts per day across the measured window.

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