Times LIVE engagement report
@TimesLIVE - 2.2M followers on X
Measured over 174 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 2.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 174 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% of 983 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 0.043% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.106% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 174 posts sampled, 10% carry an image or video and 92% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 907 interactions, about 907x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #audi, #etron, #gt.
Measured over 174 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #audi, #etron, #gt.
Compared with accounts its own size
Times LIVE's engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (983 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 4% 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%, Times LIVE sits below the 10th percentile of the 9,668 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.006%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.006% |
| 50th percentile | 0.046% |
| 75th percentile | 0.318% |
| 90th percentile | 2.67% |
| 99th percentile | 366.2% |
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 14:00 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% | 14K |
| 01:00 UTC | +3% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 16K |
| 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% | 28K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 29K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 23K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 21K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 16K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +9% | 56K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 93K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 77K |
| Thursday | -3% | 70K |
| Friday | -6% | 71K |
| Saturday | +2% | 62K |
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 | 10% of posts | +79% | +73% to +84% | 5.7K |
| Outbound link | 92% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.0K |
| Typical length | - | -7% | -8% to -5% | 8.9K |
- 10% 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.
- 92% 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 159 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 7% 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 18, 2026907x their median
Party finance chief Mark Burke has donated more than R400,000 to the DA as his fintech company faces scrutiny over R4bn in transactions. https://t.co/IpJlAncwZC
- Aug 19, 2026640x their median
South Africa plans to raise free basic electricity for poor households to 300kWh monthly. https://t.co/xh3dGNh692
- Aug 19, 2026453x their median
The MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) have dropped the Best Afrobeats category from their 2026 nominations, following two consecutive wins by South African superstar Tyla. 🔗Link in comments. https://t.co/ptCG9YC6Ls
- Aug 19, 2026301x their median
Chidimma Adetshina said the spirit of Ubuntu should guide the country through the dispute. https://t.co/BzdFcUoOBi
- Aug 19, 2026223x their median
Former University of the Witwatersrand vice-chancellor Adam Habib has endorsed DA Joburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille as the right person to save Johannesburg from collapse. 🔗Link in comments. https://t.co/VnNvlkkFoZ
- Aug 19, 2026170x their median
A suspicion over the source of funds used to purchase a R1.65m Mercedes-Benz AMG G63 at a Pretoria dealership in 2024 is what led to the arrest of Tshwane metro police officer Peter Nonyane, 36, also known as "Lamasweet" or "Greater Gagash Municipality", and his wife. 🔗 Link in comments.
- Aug 23, 2026116x their median
WATCH | At one Free State housing project, 118 flats have been completed, at an average cost of about R3.6m each. The original planned cost was R233,000 per flat. Sunday times editor Makhudu Sefara unpacks. https://t.co/qqrvSwWaLM
- Aug 18, 2026105x their median
Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa highlighted that South Africa’s electricity prices have risen by about 907% since 2007, far outpacing inflation, and announced a revised pricing policy to address affordability and transparency. https://t.co/8K6d1wL7PH
- Aug 23, 202631x their median
WATCH | This ANC supporter says issues such as policing, schooling and youth unemployment are among the key concerns facing the Riverside community that he wants addressed at today’s manifesto launch. Video: Antonio Muchave https://t.co/PaJFCggdoq
- Aug 19, 202629x their median
A King Dinizulu Hospital nurse has been provisionally suspended after a video of her allegedly assaulting a patient went viral on social media. In the video, the nurse wearing a mask is seen poking a male patient in the face, near his eyes a few times before stepping back as the patient raises his hand to protect his face. 🔗Link in comments.
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 1 interaction against 2.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 174 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% of 983 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 0.043% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.106% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 174 posts sampled, 10% carry an image or video and 92% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 907 interactions, about 907x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #audi, #etron, #gt.
- What is Times LIVE's engagement rate on X?
- Times LIVE (@TimesLIVE) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 174 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,172,943 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0%, Times LIVE sits below the 10th percentile of the 9,668 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 @TimesLIVE have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (983 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 @TimesLIVE post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.93 posts per day across the measured window.