Techzim engagement report
@Techzim - 181K followers on X
Measured over 46 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 181K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 46 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% 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 2.3K times each, and 0.198% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.25% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 46 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 43% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 622 interactions, about 156x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #igniteyourexperience, #africin, #betteron4gand5g.
Measured over 46 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026. Recurring tags: #igniteyourexperience, #africin, #betteron4gand5g.
Compared with accounts its own size
Techzim's engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 12% 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 0.003%, Techzim sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 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.
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 | 96% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 43% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 96% 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.
- 43% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% 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 253 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 29, 2026156x their median
We can confirm, Kenya ISPs have started seeing bad things from Starlink. Starlink is coming for Kenya’s small ISPs. The people who bought a home Starlink, put Wi-Fi on it, and sold internet to an estate, shops, or a village. Now, accounts are getting restricted. Some are being pushed to expensive enterprise plans. Others say their “unlimited” data is suddenly slow. Starlink sold that kit for home use. In Kenya, people used it as cheap last-mile internet because fibre is late, and a home plan costs about KES 6,500. That worked until the network got crowded. About 25,000 Kenyans are already on Starlink. New home sign-ups are frozen in seven counties. Speeds dropped in busy areas. ID checks already cut unverified accounts. Heavy shared use is next. If you use Starlink at home, you may be fine. If you sell internet on a home plan, Starlink is starting to notice. Ni Mbaya.
- Oct 12, 202636x their median
Good News! Econet’s VoLTE (Voice over LTE) has come with a bonus most people haven’t noticed: you can now make a video call straight from your phone’s normal dialer. And no you don’t need a data bundle, WiFi or WhatsApp. It’s a regular phone call, just with video. Here is how to use it : https://t.co/dJIRoDR8th
- Oct 12, 202628x their median
What's causing this wave of @WhatsApp Business account takeovers? https://t.co/RsofdtvjWU
- Sep 29, 202627x their median
Zimbabwe is getting a Starlink ground station. ICT Minister @TateMavetera says SpaceX has concluded an agreement with one of the local Starlink dealers to set one up in the first quarter of 2027. She said in reply to @WillarShoko, the independent Starlink researcher who has been pushing for a ground station since before Starlink was licensed here. He has tagged the Minister, the Starlink team, and anyone who would listen, again and again. According to @Potraz_zw's latest sector report, Starlink carried 197.78 Petabytes of data in Q1 2026. Shoko points out that’s about 2PB a day, more than Econet, NetOne and Telecel combined (179.33 PB). Starlink did this with about 86,000 subscriptions. The mobile networks have 13.5 million. All of that traffic currently leaves through ground stations in other countries. https://t.co/5mj94xM9gp
- Sep 30, 202624x their median
Here are three of some of the most promising startups in Zim!!! https://t.co/7XmEg5bTQr
- Aug 22, 202621x their median
too many problems software can solve. too few vibe coders.
- Sep 4, 202620x their median
Exciting to read Arthur Matsaudza is now ZB Bank CEO. Quite the growth from being a tech guy to an accomplished business leader. From TeleCash -> EcoCash/Steward -> Old Mutual -> OMari -> and now ZB Bank. We're quite keen to see the kind of stuff ZB builds given Arthur's mobile money heavy experience, and this new AI era that's shifting things in tech. AI has just expanded the possibilities in some unique new ways.
- Sep 3, 202620x their median
Whatsapp Parent Managed Accounts https://t.co/SQMpoid2ri
- Aug 31, 202619x their median
Zim startups you need to know: MaDeals, BantuBuzz & Hurudza AI !!!!! https://t.co/SWC83OZzzq
- Aug 31, 202618x their median
MSU Student Accused in US$1.1 Million CABS Cybertheft In what is one of Zimbabwe's largest reported financial cyber heists, a 24 year old Midlands State University student was brought before the courts for hacking and stealing US $1,136,179 from a local bank, CABS. According reports, the student, Sabelo Malunga, did attachment at CABS, and apparently exploited the access gained during his time there to install SUPREMO, a remote access software that then enabled his access after he had left. He apparently downloaded SUPREMO onto a CABS machine in January this year while still on attachment. After his attachment ended (on 23 February), he could access the CABS systems and he used that access to plant malware tools that would create fraudulent Visa and ZIPIT transactions. The Visa transactions were international ATM transactions linked to CABS-issued debit cards for $210,500 and they were discovered on 27 March. The transactions were flagged by Visa but the money had already been lost. The bank's IT team discovered the malware on 13 April and an internal reconciliation uncovered the ZIPIT transactions, some 1,911 of them, used to transfer US $925,679 to EcoCash, InnBucks, CBZ and Ecobank. This amount was also not recovered. From the dates, it looks like the student had access for an estimated 4+ weeks. There's no mention about whether the transactions would siphon money from other bank customer accounts or a different pool of money within the bank's system. There's also no mention of how CABS's endpoint cyber-security tools did not catch this remote access earlier. According to the report, CABS used the services of a South African digital forensics company to "contain and eradicate the malware and investigate the breach." The student has not yet been asked to plead and was remanded in custody until Thursday. This means all these are just allegations for now. The remote access software used in the attack, SUPREMO, is a legitimate tool similar to TeamViewer, AnyDesk, or Chrome Remote Desktop. However, while SUPREMO has built-in security measures and encryption, it has been used by hackers and scammers for unauthorized access to victims' computers. The feature usually used is a feature where it can configured to start at system boot, allowing unattended remote access.
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 4 interactions against 181K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 46 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% 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 2.3K times each, and 0.198% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.25% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 46 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 43% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 622 interactions, about 156x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #igniteyourexperience, #africin, #betteron4gand5g.
- What is Techzim's engagement rate on X?
- Techzim (@Techzim) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 46 original posts from the last 30 days against 181,403 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, Techzim sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 @Techzim have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 11% 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 @Techzim post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.