Topbilling engagement report
@SABC3Topbilling - 378K followers on X
Measured over 75 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 9 interactions against 378K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 75 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% 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 968 times each, and 0.93% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.256% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 75 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 355 interactions, about 39x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #topbilling, #topbillingpresentersearch, #expressoshow.
Measured over 75 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #topbilling, #topbillingpresentersearch, #expressoshow.
Compared with accounts its own size
Topbilling's engagement rate beats 18% 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 45% 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%, Topbilling sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,048 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 17:00 UTC, and Thursday 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% | 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 7% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 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.
- 7% 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 280 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% 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
- Sep 10, 202639x their median
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- Sep 24, 202637x their median
Missed the BIG reveal on #TopBilling? Here they are, the #TopBillingPresenterSearch TOP 10: Candice Weber Disego Rachel Mogale Homba Mazaleni Karen Mthethwa Nasi Hako Nehemiah Tjatji Ross Marshall Shaun Farrell Talitha Bothma Timothe Matheba Who are you backing? https://t.co/6HJvdm92IL
- Sep 9, 20269.9x their median
You know her style, now discover a whole new side of Sarah Langa’s creativity. Zozi steps into Sarah’s new world of interiors, where African heritage, personal memories and contemporary design come together. Watch the full feature on #TopBilling: 📺 THURSDAY | 7PM | @SABC3 https://t.co/nXSE1OwDIt
- Sep 24, 20269.2x their median
Your #TopBillingPresenterSearch Top 10 are officially here courtesy of @luckyfishza! Next, they’ll face their biggest challenges yet a LIVE takeover on @expressoshow on Tuesday 29 Sep and Thursday 1 Oct. Who will be joining the #TopBilling presenter team? https://t.co/Bc5tPg9EmR
- Aug 27, 20269.2x their median
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- Sep 10, 20267.6x their median
Thank you, Sarah Langa, for sharing this exciting new venture with #TopBilling. We wish you every success and look forward to featuring many more beautiful homes with interiors designed by you! https://t.co/wVeYX28i4i
- Sep 3, 20267.6x their median
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- Aug 27, 20267.6x their median
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- Oct 1, 20266.7x their median
London is calling… and Fez is answering! 🇬🇧 Tonight, Dr Fez Mkhize is your host for a very special London edition of #TopBilling! And of course, he’s doing London in style, dressed by @Luzooy_sa. 🔥 Join Fez tonight at 7pm on @SABC3 https://t.co/5g9Y4wGaj0
- Aug 27, 20265.6x 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.
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 9 interactions against 378K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 75 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% 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 968 times each, and 0.93% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.256% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 75 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 355 interactions, about 39x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #topbilling, #topbillingpresentersearch, #expressoshow.
- What is Topbilling's engagement rate on X?
- Topbilling (@SABC3Topbilling) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 75 original posts from the last 30 days against 378,422 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Topbilling sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,048 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 @SABC3Topbilling have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 18% 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 @SABC3Topbilling post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.73 posts per day across the measured window.