TheStarKenya engagement report
@TheStarKenya - 2.4M followers on X
Measured over 152 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 152 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 1,003 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 0.11% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.075% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 152 posts sampled, 34% carry an image or video and 66% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 56 interactions, about 28x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #starinfographics, #starkenyanews.
Measured over 152 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026. Recurring tags: #starinfographics, #starkenyanews.
Compared with accounts its own size
TheStarKenya's engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 9% 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%, TheStarKenya sits below the 10th percentile of the 9,981 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.007%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.047% |
| 75th percentile | 0.325% |
| 90th percentile | 2.60% |
| 99th percentile | 357.9% |
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 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% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | 34% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 66% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | -5% | -7% to -4% | 7.9K |
- 34% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 66% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% 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 219 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters run 5% 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 17, 202628x their median
Two people, including a police officer, were killed and 46 others injured during violent clashes that disrupted the Linda Mwananchi rally in Homa Bay Town on Sunday, August 16, 2026. Police said the officer was driving a police vehicle at high speed when he was struck by a flying stone. #starkenyanews
- Aug 17, 202625x their median
Politics Unfiltered | Embakasi East MP Babu Owino Watch full video:https://t.co/Fr4Shwg5iX https://t.co/u9wuWNeylX
- Aug 17, 202622x their median
Kisumu Journalists Network condemns the attack on journalists covering the Linda Mwananchi rally in Homa Bay, where some were assaulted, equipment stolen and vehicles damaged. KJN calls for journalists to be allowed to work without intimidation or violence. https://t.co/LJVmDnpByV
- Aug 18, 202620x their median
Police detained activists during a protest outside Nairobi police headquarters, where demonstrators called for reforms and the resignation of Inspector General Douglas Kanja. https://t.co/3SMw4pECFi
- Aug 21, 202617x their median
DCP leader Rigathi Gachagua has pledged to support the construction of the late Johanna Ng’eno’s mausoleum, saying he will honour the wishes of his mother https://t.co/bazMrUqj3B
- Aug 17, 202612x their median
Energy and Petroleum CS Opiyo Wandayi urges Siaya residents to support the planned nuclear power plant, dismissing critics he says are influenced by outside forces. https://t.co/rELO42yrNr
- Aug 18, 202610x their median
Former Arsenal and France captain Patrick Vieira has been appointed head coach of the Senegal men’s national team, taking charge of the country of his birth. The 50-year-old replaces Pape Thiaw, who was dismissed following Senegal’s last-32 exit at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. #starkenyanews
- Aug 18, 202610x their median
The High Court at Milimani, Nairobi, has set September 16 as the earliest possible date for the sentencing hearing of former Migori Governor Okoth Obado and his two co-accused. https://t.co/5lSdd8VPtz
- Aug 21, 20269.5x their median
Speaker Moses Wetang'ula attended an empowerment drive at the invitation of Likuyani MP Innocent Mugabe in support of the Bungoma Council of Elders Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (BUCOE Sacco) at St Francis Milima Comprehensive School in Likuyani, Kakamega https://t.co/2qmnedotaY
- Aug 18, 20269.5x their median
Former Chief Justice David Maraga has asked President William Ruto to release and publish the full Police Reform Taskforce Report, saying he will make the document public himself if it is not released within seven days https://t.co/cf5p58cNjB
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 2 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 152 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 1,003 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 0.11% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.075% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 152 posts sampled, 34% carry an image or video and 66% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 56 interactions, about 28x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #starinfographics, #starkenyanews.
- What is TheStarKenya's engagement rate on X?
- TheStarKenya (@TheStarKenya) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 152 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,419,084 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, TheStarKenya sits below the 10th percentile of the 9,981 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 @TheStarKenya have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 @TheStarKenya post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.07 posts per day across the measured window.