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The Namibian engagement report

@TheNamibian - 444K followers on X

Measured over 156 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 444K followers
Per impression
0.333%
1.8K views on a typical post
Reach
0.41%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
6
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
5.2/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 444K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 156 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% 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 1.8K times each, and 0.333% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.406% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 156 posts sampled, 65% carry an image or video and 69% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 333 interactions, about 56x its own typical post.

Measured over 156 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

The Namibian's engagement rate beats 14% 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 23% 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 Namibian 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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,048 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 Wednesday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video65% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link69% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 65% 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.
  • 69% 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 208 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

  • Sep 7, 202656x their median

    https://t.co/9gaqKalviM

    24446133013K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202635x their median

    Omusati governor Immanuel Shikongo says one does not need to be older to be a hero or save anyone. https://t.co/hcTifIOqkV https://t.co/P06REH4wnK

    19313238.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 202634x their median

    https://t.co/clI69aXm0r

    1563012812K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 202630x their median

    SHOWING MOVES ... Popular Democratic Movement party president McHenry Venaani showed off his dance moves during the Okakarara Annual Trade Fair music bash on Saturday. Video: Contributed https://t.co/sPli5QrklQ

    154185515K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202630x their median

    PETITION … A petition launched on Thursday by social activist Michael Amushelelo to remove United States ambassador to Namibia John Giordano had garnered more than 810 signatures by late Thursday. The petition – ‘Declare the US Ambassador Persona non Grata (unwelcome person) in Namibia’ – was published online and received 100 signatures in the first hour. Amushelelo describes the petition as a “firm stand against the perceived encroachment on our natural resources". Read more in The Namibian today!

    12321191628K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 202625x their median

    ‘WHY KEEP IT PRIVATE?’ … City of Windhoek Affirmative Repositioning councillor Kavetu Maitjituavi has questioned why president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s application to buy land through a private sale should be kept from the public while Cricket Namibia’s land application can be discussed publicly. He says land-related issues should be discussed openly. He made the remarks during an ordinary council meeting in Windhoek on Thursday. Video: Martin Endjala

    132170310K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 202621x their median

    https://t.co/VjutPdDJoJ

    10910056.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 202620x their median

    https://t.co/eqtDa5oneG

    10454916K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202616x their median

    The German government has withdrawn an estimated N$200-million grant earmarked for Windhoek’s sustainable urban mobility project, dealing a major blow to the city’s plans to promote cleaner and more efficient public transport. https://t.co/jclhDIUDoO https://t.co/V0Zlvcc1Qx

    7289511K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 202615x their median

    https://t.co/QLJ4XQNzmD

    8053313K viewsView on X

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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 444K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 156 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% 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 1.8K times each, and 0.333% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.406% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 156 posts sampled, 65% carry an image or video and 69% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 333 interactions, about 56x its own typical post.

What is The Namibian's engagement rate on X?
The Namibian (@TheNamibian) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 156 original posts from the last 30 days against 444,098 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, The Namibian 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 @TheNamibian have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 14% 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 @TheNamibian post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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