The Standard Digital engagement report
@StandardKenya - 2.7M followers on X
Measured over 220 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 2.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 220 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 1,223 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 2.5K times each, and 0.161% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.091% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 220 posts sampled, 47% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 745 interactions, about 186x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #entryofndindinyoro, #ndindinyoroplan, #ktnprime.
Measured over 220 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 24, 2026. Recurring tags: #entryofndindinyoro, #ndindinyoroplan, #ktnprime.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Standard Digital's engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,223 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 15% 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 under 0.001%, The Standard Digital sits below the 10th percentile of the 13,760 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.008%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.008% |
| 50th percentile | 0.055% |
| 75th percentile | 0.358% |
| 90th percentile | 2.39% |
| 99th percentile | 272.8% |
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 17:00 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% | 18K |
| 01:00 UTC | +1% | 18K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 18K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 18K |
| 04:00 UTC | -7% | 15K |
| 05:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 06:00 UTC | -6% | 16K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 17K |
| 08:00 UTC | -6% | 20K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 23K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 25K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 26K |
| 12:00 UTC | 0% | 29K |
| 13:00 UTC | 0% | 33K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 34K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 36K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 35K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 33K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 30K |
| 19:00 UTC | +1% | 28K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 26K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 23K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 20K |
| 23:00 UTC | 0% | 18K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 85K |
| Monday | +2% | 88K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 102K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 87K |
| Thursday | -1% | 82K |
| Friday | -4% | 89K |
| Saturday | +4% | 83K |
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 | 47% of posts | +83% | +77% to +89% | 7.0K |
| Outbound link | 59% of posts | -48% | -50% to -47% | 7.2K |
| Typical length | - | -4% | -6% to -3% | 9.4K |
- 47% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 83% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 59% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 48% 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 209 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters run 4% 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 23, 2026186x their median
Ex-President Kenyatta launches 'My Country First,' a book honouring the late former Vice President Michael Kijana Wamalwa, during his 23rd anniversary in Kitale. https://t.co/GHuUNpQwmf
- Aug 20, 2026168x their median
Kwale's Linda Mwananchi Woman rep aspirant Najma Mwandoto recounts ordeal after alleged goon attack during Linda Mwananchi rally in Homa Bay. Video by Tobias Chanji https://t.co/Mccvgdjj1V
- Aug 17, 202691x their median
Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro ditches President Ruto's UDA party, cites failure to deliver campaign promises, joins opposition https://t.co/XflnDC6jAh
- Aug 20, 202688x their median
A clear case of double standards is emerging at the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC). Homa Bay town MP Opondo Kaluma has openly defied a summons to appear over hate speech allegations, while the commission and police move with speed against other suspects in the same incident. https://t.co/B344llEPkL
- Aug 18, 202688x their median
Gachagua challenges Ruto to face him politically, leads “Fagia wote” chant in Nyeri. Video by Amos Kiarie https://t.co/tLC3vIABzw
- Aug 20, 202672x their median
Linda Mwananchi supporter Ogweno criticises Gladys Wanga’s leadership style. Video by Clinton Ambujo https://t.co/FXn3q9E69q
- Aug 18, 202672x their median
Kakamega KUPPET Branch Secretary Johnstone Wabuti urges schools to stop hiring buses to ferry supporters to rallies. Video by Benard Lusigi https://t.co/fDDWfNAKp1
- Aug 23, 202656x their median
BARRACK MULUKA: It is tempting to think of Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen as cynical, or even sadistic. He is perhaps both. But far worse, he is simply naïve. He has not understood the magnitude of the office he occupies, and its implications for his country, beyond the current regime. Allow me to speak as a seasoned scholar in armed conflict and peace studies. Let me tell you where Kenya is going under President William Ruto, and the agency of Murkomen. The CS Interior has told Kenyans, “If you know that someone has organised goons in Homa Bay, and the police have told you that there are goons, why go there? Why don’t you just go home and plan for some other meeting some other day, when there will be no goons?” Now this is beyond cynicism and sadism. It is pure naivete. The Kenyan State is not just normalising political gangsterism. It is creating an alternative centre in the legitimate exercise of violence. https://t.co/NdkDoF6jXm
- Aug 23, 202642x their median
OPINION: CS Murkomen will soon need goons to protect his meetings https://t.co/13ro3Kuzyh
- Aug 23, 202638x their median
Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka leads opposition leaders in honouring Kijana Wamalwa at his 23rd anniversary Video by Osinde Obare https://t.co/FwgDY1JzIk
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.
Buy or sell X accounts - escrow-protected
PlayerSells is an escrow marketplace for X accounts. Every deal is protected, with no middleman risk.
Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 2.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 220 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 1,223 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 2.5K times each, and 0.161% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.091% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 220 posts sampled, 47% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 745 interactions, about 186x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #entryofndindinyoro, #ndindinyoroplan, #ktnprime.
- What is The Standard Digital's engagement rate on X?
- The Standard Digital (@StandardKenya) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 220 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,737,279 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, The Standard Digital sits below the 10th percentile of the 13,760 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 @StandardKenya have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,223 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 @StandardKenya post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 7.9 posts per day across the measured window.