Red Pepper Uganda engagement report
@RedPepperUG - 455K followers on X
Measured over 52 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 23 interactions against 455K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 52 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 3,829 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 6.0K times each, and 0.384% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.32% 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, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 52 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 81% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 453 interactions, about 20x its own typical post.
Measured over 52 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Red Pepper Uganda's engagement rate beats 23% 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 28% 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 0.005%, Red Pepper Uganda sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,037 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
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 | 158.8% |
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 14:00 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% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Aug 25, 202620x their median
BREAKING: RIOTS ERUPT IN IMVEPI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT Violence has erupted at Imvepi Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda , with refugees reportedly setting fire to @OPMUganda and police buildings and quarters. Preliminary information indicates the unrest may be linked to dissatisfaction over the outcome of the Refugee Welfare Councils (RWCs) elections. Police are reportedly on the ground as the situation remains tense.
- Aug 26, 202614x their median
ROAD IMPUNITY! An Office of the President vehicle, reportedly attached to an RDC (names withheld for now) in eastern Uganda, allegedly scratched a city dweller’s Mark X near Arena Mall along the Nsambya-Kansanga Road on Monday evening. The Mark X driver reportedly pursued the government vehicle until it was cornered towards Salaama Road. According to preliminary accounts, the occupant of the government vehicle allegedly got out and attempted to reach for one of the two guns reportedly inside the vehicle, apparently intending to shoot the Mark X driver. However, one of his daughters who was reportedly in the vehicle intervened, pleading with her father: “Daddy, don’t shoot people!” The incident was subsequently escalated to Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP), which dispatched a police patrol motorcycle to the scene. The matter was later taken to Kibuye Police Station. At Kibuye, the government vehicle occupant reportedly pleaded with the Mark X driver to resolve the matter “as men"...
- Aug 22, 20265.9x their median
STARLINK LANDS IN UGANDA! Roke Telkom, Paratus Uganda First To Fire Up Satellite Internet Read on- 👉 https://t.co/9UFSvO3bZn https://t.co/hwrsMKtmy9
- Aug 25, 20265.6x their median
GREATEST IRONY...SHELTER SEEKERS BURN THEIR OWN SHELTER! Here is the @OPMUganda building at Imvepi Refugee Settlement in Terego District that was Tuesday evening burnt as violence erupted among refugees. Refugees also torched police facilities and quarters. The unrest is preliminarily linked to dissatisfaction over the outcome of the Refugee Welfare Councils (RWCs) elections. Police are on the ground as tension remains high...
- Aug 25, 20264.9x their median
GEN. SALEH BIDS FAREWELL TO GEN. OTEMA! ‘One of Uganda’s Greatest Soldiers’ Honoured After 47 Years in Uniform Read on- 👉 https://t.co/8LxNrITQvG https://t.co/axC6FxJQo9
- Aug 22, 20264.8x their median
RIP ANTHONY KUSHABA Former @ugandarn journalist Anthony Kushaba has passed away. Kushaba, who served as URN Bureau Chief for Kabale and Mbarara, later joined Ntungamo District Local Government as a Communications Officer. He was reportedly found dead inside his house on Friday. Ntungamo District and Municipality leaders have laid wreaths in his honour. Kushaba will be laid to rest tomorrow, Sunday, August 23, 2026, at his ancestral home in Katooma Village, Rwentobo, Rwahi Town Council. May his soul rest in peace. 🕊️
- Aug 23, 20263.6x their median
INSIDE WORKS MINISTRY ROT! Sh500Bn Contractor Arrears, Sh533Bn PAPs Debt, Abandoned Roads & Sh40.6Bn Questionable Bills Expose Management Failures at @MoWT_Uganda Details here 👇 https://t.co/Yyk9kb7Dup https://t.co/9krF0BtX7i
- Aug 22, 20263.6x their median
MAKERERE SOARS IN NEW RANKINGS! East Africa’s No.1 Varsity Jumps To 776th Globally, 11th In Africa Details here 👇 https://t.co/uUsI6mnN5j https://t.co/KWtxWreOck
- Aug 26, 20263.0x their median
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- Aug 27, 20263.0x their median
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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 23 interactions against 455K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 52 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 3,829 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 6.0K times each, and 0.384% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.32% 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, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 52 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 81% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 453 interactions, about 20x its own typical post.
- What is Red Pepper Uganda's engagement rate on X?
- Red Pepper Uganda (@RedPepperUG) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 52 original posts from the last 30 days against 455,251 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.005%, Red Pepper Uganda sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,037 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 @RedPepperUG have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 @RedPepperUG post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.77 posts per day across the measured window.