Sahara Reporters engagement report
@SaharaReporters - 5.5M followers on X
Measured over 201 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 42 interactions against 5.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 201 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 982 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 20K times each, and 0.214% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.354% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 201 posts sampled, 82% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 79x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #osundecides2026, #saharasports101.
Measured over 201 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 22, 2026. Recurring tags: #osundecides2026, #saharasports101.
Compared with accounts its own size
Sahara Reporters's engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (982 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 22% 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%, Sahara Reporters sits above the 10th percentile of the 9,668 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.006%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.006% |
| 50th percentile | 0.046% |
| 75th percentile | 0.318% |
| 90th percentile | 2.67% |
| 99th percentile | 366.2% |
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 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% | 14K |
| 01:00 UTC | +3% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 16K |
| 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% | 28K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 29K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 23K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 21K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 16K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +9% | 56K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 93K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 77K |
| Thursday | -3% | 70K |
| Friday | -6% | 71K |
| Saturday | +2% | 62K |
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 | 82% of posts | +79% | +73% to +84% | 5.7K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.0K |
| Typical length | - | -5% | -7% to -4% | 7.8K |
- 82% 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.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 191 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters run 5% below 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 21, 202679x their median
FBI Says Release Of Withheld Tinubu Records Could ‘Endanger Life’, Seeks Secret Court Review | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/3258AT5MH0 https://t.co/WUGwq65Off
- Aug 18, 202643x their median
Ex-President Jonathan Warns Tinubu, Governors: 'Stop Invading States With Security Machinery During Elections' | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/exE6PuoP0R https://t.co/uP8AJBRmcY
- Aug 16, 202640x their median
BREAKING: Adeleke Wins Osun Governorship Election With 511,067 Votes | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/W1MnapB36p https://t.co/zRhQF63sig
- Aug 21, 202633x their median
WATCH: Travellers Accuse JTF Operatives At Imo Checkpoints Of Extortion, Threats To Kill After Labeling Them IPOB Members More on SaharaTV: https://t.co/XedVxzP0JR https://t.co/ndh9uDMUwr
- Aug 16, 202629x their median
Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party is set to be announced as the winner of the Osun governorship election after leading in the official results announced by INEC from the 30 Local Government Areas in the state. FOLLOW LIVE: https://t.co/sSjTwAoXYu #OsunDecides2026 https://t.co/jQrs2xf6jM
- Aug 21, 202628x their median
EXCLUSIVE: ‘They Tried To Shoot Me And Tag Me IPOB Member: Travellers Accuse JTF Operatives At Imo Checkpoints Of Extortion, Threats To Kill | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/77uOrnXALc https://t.co/k9oDBuPfLI
- Aug 18, 202625x their median
U.S. Judge Sets New Deadline For Release Of Records On Allegations Linking Tinubu To Drug Trafficking –Atiku's US Lobbying Firm | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/WWAEXb1KfA https://t.co/PQiGAS64Je
- Aug 21, 202620x their median
Same-Day School Abductions: Borno Parents Protest As Children Near 100 Days In Captivity, Oyo Children Rescued | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/b9CDxFIeqE https://t.co/rl9cQyHFTU
- Aug 21, 202617x their median
2027: Obi Challenges Presidential Rivals To Face Nigerians, Says ‘No Candidate Should Hide Behind Proxies’ | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/xFMSr0uKXp https://t.co/VKzNIyIDok
- Aug 15, 202617x their median
OSUN DECIDES 2026: LIVE FROM INEC COLLATION CENTRE https://t.co/SYPHjABuKS
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 42 interactions against 5.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 201 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 982 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 20K times each, and 0.214% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.354% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 201 posts sampled, 82% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 79x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #osundecides2026, #saharasports101.
- What is Sahara Reporters's engagement rate on X?
- Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 201 original posts from the last 30 days against 5,548,412 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Sahara Reporters sits above the 10th percentile of the 9,668 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 @SaharaReporters have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (982 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 @SaharaReporters post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 6.9 posts per day across the measured window.