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S3 engagement report

@SABC3 - 271K followers on X

Measured over 55 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 7, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.002%
of 271K followers
Per impression
0.881%
454 views on a typical post
Reach
0.17%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
4
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 271K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 55 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 6,874 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 454 times each, and 0.881% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.168% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 55 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17 interactions, about 4.3x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #s3openup, #s3, #expresso.

Measured over 55 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 7, 2026. Recurring tags: #s3openup, #s3, #expresso.

Compared with accounts its own size

S3's engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 43% 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 0.002%, S3 sits below the 10th percentile of the 66,128 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.016%.

p100.002%
p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.499%
p902.09%
p99119.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 66,128 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 57,111 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.499%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile119.9%

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 12:00 UTC, and Monday 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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 12:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link27% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 100% 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.
  • 27% 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 218 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

  • Aug 28, 20264.3x their median

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    134001.1K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20263.3x their median

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    9400686 viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20262.8x their median

    Catch #Paradys Every Weekdays at 11h30 on #S3 or stream live on https://t.co/GkI86IWPh7 https://t.co/UH4il4uAHp

    91011.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20262.5x their median

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    6400839 viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20261.8x their median

    ⚽πŸ”₯ MATCHDAY IS HERE! πŸ”₯⚽ The Premier League is back! πŸ† πŸ”΄βš« Bournemouth πŸ†š Everton πŸ”΅ πŸ“… Saturday, 29 August ⏰ 15:30 πŸ“Ί SABC Sport | SABC Plus | SABC 3 | DStv 193 Who are you backing to take the three points? πŸ‘€πŸ‘‡ LET THE GAMES BEGIN! πŸ’œβš½ #PremierLeague #SABCSport https://t.co/9EGZCQcm3O

    5200655 viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20261.8x their median

    On last night's episode of Momentum : She Owns Her Success. Johanna Makgalemele-Mukoki and Katie Mohamed explore how the people closest to us shape the way we think about money, opportunity, ambition and what feels possible. Catch up NOW on SABC Plus: https://t.co/eyxBCmxXY4 https://t.co/hyiyy7iD0m

    52001.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20261.5x their median

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    5100277 viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20261.5x their median

    Missed Episode 1 of She Owns Her Success last night? Catch up with @elanaafrika as she shares her perspective on navigating success, life and the choices that shape your journey. πŸ“² Catch up now on SABC + πŸ“Ί Watch Episode 2, tonight at 20:30 on S3 #S3OpenUp #SheOwnsHerSuccess https://t.co/lA0ro1pgFL

    5100759 viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20261.5x their median

    Meet inspiring South Africans Bhungane Mehlomakulu, Bonolo Chepape and Serena Jagadasan. πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ Beautiful homes, remarkable people and proudly South African stories. Catch the #TopBilling repeat today at 13h00 on S3! πŸ“Ί Stream on SABC+. https://t.co/dCJbsrbUtS

    5100742 viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 2026

    Catch #Paradys Weekdays at 11h30 on #S3 or Stream it live on https://t.co/CIUq1f7VLH https://t.co/3CN7XEKbzg

    4100650 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

#s3openup#s3#expresso#topbilling#baywatch

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 271K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 55 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 6,874 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 454 times each, and 0.881% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.168% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 55 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17 interactions, about 4.3x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #s3openup, #s3, #expresso.

What is S3's engagement rate on X?
S3 (@SABC3) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 55 original posts from the last 30 days against 270,853 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, S3 sits below the 10th percentile of the 66,128 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 @SABC3 have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @SABC3 post?
Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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