The Citizen Tanzania engagement report
@TheCitizenTz - 308K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 308K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% 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 815 times each, and 0.368% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.265% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 88% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 139 interactions, about 46x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #empoweringthenation, #mwanaclick, #thecitizeneditorialcartoon.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026. Recurring tags: #empoweringthenation, #mwanaclick, #thecitizeneditorialcartoon.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Citizen Tanzania's engagement rate beats 6% 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 24% 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%, The Citizen Tanzania sits below the 10th percentile of the 66,258 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.016%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.499% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.6% |
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 Friday 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 | 88% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 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.
- 88% 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 146 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% 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
- Sep 3, 202646x their median
Fabrizio Romano puts Yanga’s new Champions League kits on global stage https://t.co/wLC5rP1RtS https://t.co/ObxTKW713S
- Sep 4, 20267.3x their median
The United Nations has backed a shift away from the centuries-old Mercator map towards one that more accurately reflects the true size of countries and continents. https://t.co/xYqMztePTF https://t.co/gBWdv5pwv1
- Sep 4, 20267.0x their median
Manqoba eyes new records with Yanga in Caf Champions League https://t.co/fttzUdxWC4 https://t.co/yk26xLVhMw
- Sep 4, 20266.7x their median
Tanzania sets 2030 target for Mwanza-Dodoma SGR link https://t.co/9yuq3djKpv https://t.co/i5bLqCfXpc
- Sep 3, 20266.3x their median
Tanzania’s prudent fiscal management sets it apart from its East African peers, says World Bank Regional Vice President Ndiamé Diop. “In many countries in the region, debt repayments consume such a large share of revenue that little remains for education and infrastructure." https://t.co/2kzgbWnO7m
- Sep 3, 20265.3x their median
Tim Draper, the venture capitalist behind early bets on Tesla and SpaceX, announced on social media that he was selling “my island in Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania” for $7.9 million or best offer, inviting buyers to reach him directly by email. https://t.co/xSTNRji23Q https://t.co/NXz4wX6D6z
- Sep 3, 20263.3x their median
Get locked in with the latest updates! Download the #MwanaClick app at https://t.co/dRL4nMGLIj to get started or get access to your digital copy directly at https://t.co/7SbVmbnCbI. #EmpoweringTheNation https://t.co/wlF9nY3f8G
- Sep 3, 20263.0x their median
Experts back watermarks to curb excessive reliance on AI https://t.co/BmQ7H2D5ex https://t.co/4PzUHXKpo0
- Sep 4, 20262.7x their median
US-based Kamungo of FC Dallas gets Taifa Stars call for Afcon qualifiers https://t.co/fxdtNheYbE https://t.co/3V12pY4Ofr
- Sep 4, 20262.7x their median
Air Tanzania has temporarily suspended flights between Dar es Salaam and Moscow, citing safety concerns following a routine assessment of the operating environment along the route. https://t.co/dbEdvFBBz8 https://t.co/ojFpgBzeVE
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 3 interactions against 308K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% 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 815 times each, and 0.368% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.265% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 88% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 139 interactions, about 46x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #empoweringthenation, #mwanaclick, #thecitizeneditorialcartoon.
- What is The Citizen Tanzania's engagement rate on X?
- The Citizen Tanzania (@TheCitizenTz) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 308,100 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, The Citizen Tanzania sits below the 10th percentile of the 66,258 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 @TheCitizenTz have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 6% 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 @TheCitizenTz post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.