The Namibian engagement report
@TheNamibian - 444K followers on X
Measured over 57 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 444K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 57 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,774 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 2.7K times each, and 0.299% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.603% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 57 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video and 74% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 211 interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
Measured over 57 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Namibian's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 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 0.002%, The Namibian sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 202626x 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
- Aug 27, 202626x their median
https://t.co/clI69aXm0r
- Aug 28, 202622x 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!
- Aug 27, 202619x 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
- Aug 27, 202616x their median
https://t.co/VjutPdDJoJ
- Aug 29, 202612x 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
- Aug 27, 202611x their median
https://t.co/QLJ4XQNzmD
- Aug 28, 20269.8x their median
ALTERCATION … A woman appeared in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of murder after allegedly stabbing her colleague and close companion Paulu Katombera (23) on Saturday. The suspect, Antonio Ngeve (29), allegedly stabbed the deceased after he allegedly slapped her at a local mini market. The two used to occasionally produce TikTok videos together. Read more in The Namibian today.
- Aug 27, 20269.1x their median
https://t.co/94J9s2rHWh
- Aug 28, 20269.0x their median
Social activist Michael Amushelelo has been held in contempt of court and sentenced to a suspended prison term of one month in connection with remarks that he made about suspended Namibian police inspector general Joseph Shikongo on social media last year. Read full article on The Namibian website. https://t.co/r8xIozvooD
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 8 interactions against 444K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 57 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,774 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 2.7K times each, and 0.299% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.603% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 57 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video and 74% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 211 interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
- What is The Namibian's engagement rate on X?
- The Namibian (@TheNamibian) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 57 original posts from the last 30 days against 443,827 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, The Namibian sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.9 posts per day across the measured window.