Hon Robert ALAI, HSC engagement report
@RobertAlai - 2.2M followers on X
Measured over 128 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 202 interactions against 2.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 128 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% of 1,003 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 21K times each, and 0.949% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.966% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 128 posts sampled, 77% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.3K interactions, about 26x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #healthsummitke, #ncic.
Measured over 128 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #healthsummitke, #ncic.
Compared with accounts its own size
Hon Robert ALAI, HSC's engagement rate beats 40% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 52% 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 0.009%, Hon Robert ALAI, HSC sits above the 25th percentile of the 9,981 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.007% to 0.047%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.047% |
| 75th percentile | 0.325% |
| 90th percentile | 2.60% |
| 99th percentile | 357.9% |
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 05:00 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 | 0% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | 77% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 4% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | +13% | +10% to +15% | 6.4K |
- 77% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 4% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 297 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 13% 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
- Aug 23, 202626x their median
HE @PR_Diomaye of Senegal became President at 44. 2027 @edwinsifuna will be 45. True the opposition must democratically choose one presidential candidate. But you mean SIFUNA, BABA’s reincarnation, shielded by a BABU Nairobi governor, cannot lift a Sword, Bible & Constitution?
- Aug 18, 202625x their median
Open letter to President WiIliam Ruto https://t.co/p2eka9V6ta
- Aug 16, 202623x their median
Mmeona roads za Homabay na wako ndani ya serikali kabisa. https://t.co/QlYxxqwnMM
- Aug 17, 202620x their median
BEYOND THE DUST: HOMA BAY'S LONG ROAD FROM MARGINALISATION TO TRANSFORMATION The dust on the Mbita–Sindo–Kiabuya–Sori corridor tells a story. But it is not the story of a people who have failed. It is the story of a region that has waited far too long for the infrastructure required to unlock its potential. What was billed as a tour of Homa Bay by Linda Mwananchi ended up doing something its organisers did not intend: it highlighted the very tribulations our community has been fighting to overcome. Rough roads in parts of Suba South became a visual metaphor, and a source of ridicule, for Homa Bay's exclusion from development (including by their main sponsor). For the people who live along these roads, however, their condition is no joke; it is a daily reality that shapes access to markets and services, the cost of doing business, and the pace at which communities can develop. Homa Bay has lived with this reality for decades. Since independence, the county, like many others across the country, has been evidence of a structural deficit that stretches from God Odiado in Siaya to Wuoth Ogik in Nyatike, shared by Turkana, Maasailand, Western Kenya, the Coast and other regions that have waited since 1963 for a fair share of the republic. These regions have experienced acute economic marginalisation reflected in an infrastructure deficit far greater than what their population, resources and potential should have allowed. Those roads have their origins in independent Kenya, and their neglect spans every administration: fifteen years under Jomo Kenyatta, twenty-four under Daniel Arap Moi, ten under Mwai Kibaki, and ten more under Uhuru Kenyatta. It is a matter of historical record, not grievance for its own sake, that the roads Linda Mwananchi's cameras found so remarkable are the same roads generations of governments chose not to build. The Mbita road itself tells that story in miniature: first awarded in 2016 under the Uhuru Kenyatta government to Put Sarajevo, it stalled for lack of allocated funds, with only 7km of its 74km completed. It was re-awarded in 2020 and again saw little progress. In the last two years, 28km have so far been tarmacked, with works currently ongoing. It is important to note that a 74km trunk road is not something that devolution or CDF can address. However, devolution matters. Some would ask what devolution has done? It is devolution, championed for decades by leaders including Raila Odinga, that has begun to give counties like Homa Bay a say over their own development and a share of resources once concentrated at the centre. This has turned the case for correcting marginalisation from a matter of goodwill into a constitutional guarantee. We are not embarrassed by that history. If images of rutted roads earned Homa Bay comparisons to conflict zones, we take that as a badge of honour to our marginalisation and resilience, not an insult requiring our silence. We are convinced that these roads would have been tarmacked decades ago had Tom Mboya and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga remained in government. Jaramogi was forced out in 1966, Mboya assassinated in 1969, both on a path toward the presidency. Raila Odinga, many believe, would have delivered that infrastructure as president, but when Kenyans elected him, that mandate was denied to him by force. That history is why the current moment deserves to be judged on its own terms, not dismissed as political theatre.
- Aug 18, 202615x their median
Sharon Otieno’s family open to reconciliation with Obado The family hopes that Obado would honour a promise he made to Sharon to buy her a plot and build her a house https://t.co/fxO2sHgJe5 https://t.co/9V1xiXG9ko
- Aug 19, 202611x their median
Hosted a town hall meeting on the sidelines of the Kenya Health Summit at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi, bringing together stakeholders from the health sector to listen, engage and chart the way forward on our transformation agenda. https://t.co/TIG57cxwgj
- Aug 16, 202611x their median
This is real poverty. Yet some people will still sing TUTAM as if political slogans can tarmac roads, build hospitals or put food on the table. Loyalty should never be so blind that people celebrate leaders while living with problems those same leaders have had the power to fix. A slogan is not development. A chant is not infrastructure. You cannot eat TUTAM. You cannot drive on TUTAM. When your road is falling apart, shouting TUTAM will not fill the potholes.
- Aug 17, 202611x their median
Every major highway has a dusty feeder road. Fact! Quite laughable how the roaming tourists deceitfully picked what to magnify. This clip captures the content creators enjoying the Kigwa - Magunga stretch along Sindo-Magunga-Sori Highway done by H.E @WilliamsRuto's admin. https://t.co/bN7RcYv83B
- Aug 17, 20267.3x their median
The #NCIC has officially summoned Hon. Peter Kaluma, MP for Homa Bay Town Constituency, to appear before it on Wednesday, 19th August 2026, following utterances he made in Homa Bay on Saturday, 15th August 2026. @ntvkenya @citizentvkenya @KTNNewsKE @K24Tv @inoorotv @KamemeTvKenya @DCI_Kenya @IEBCKenya #AmaniKwaGround #OnePeopleOneNationOnedestiny
- Aug 16, 20265.8x their median
This policer officer is someone’s father, husband and loved one. Sifuna, Babu Owino and other Linda Mwananchi leaders Must apologise to this officer for their Goons humiliating and assaulting an officer simply doing his job pale Homabay. https://t.co/g1v6G7mvNT
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
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 202 interactions against 2.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 128 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% of 1,003 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 21K times each, and 0.949% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.966% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 128 posts sampled, 77% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.3K interactions, about 26x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #healthsummitke, #ncic.
- What is Hon Robert ALAI, HSC's engagement rate on X?
- Hon Robert ALAI, HSC (@RobertAlai) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 128 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,202,926 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.009%, Hon Robert ALAI, HSC sits above the 25th percentile of the 9,981 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 @RobertAlai have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 40% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 @RobertAlai post?
- Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 9 posts per day across the measured window.