Tumisho Masha engagement report
@TumishoMasha - 140K followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 670 interactions against 140K followers, an engagement rate of 0.499%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 81% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 20K times each, and 3.40% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 14.1% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.4K interactions, about 9.5x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #forevergreenforevergold, #actionsamanifestolaunch, #anc.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #forevergreenforevergold, #actionsamanifestolaunch, #anc.
Compared with accounts its own size
Tumisho Masha's engagement rate beats 81% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 77% 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 0.499%, Tumisho Masha sits above the 50th percentile of the 213,098 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.147% to 0.698%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.9% |
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 Sunday 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 | 69% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 69% 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.
- 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 512 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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 26, 20269.5x their median
Kudzai Ndlovu and Maria Makgato were shot and killed brutally by a white famer Zachariah Olivier. Not sure why is Ernst Roets campaign dragging these people's names to push their white persecution agenda in Washington. https://t.co/gdurNF3O2i
- Sep 24, 20266.9x their median
DEAR SOUTH AFRICANS, WE DON’T WANT THIS WOMAN AS OUR NATIONAL COMMISSIONER ‼️ 🚨 THE #ANC IS FORCING HER DOWN OUR THROATS JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE https://t.co/NqDWjt7yAC
- Sep 27, 20265.5x their median
Let me say this again White people in South Africa are the most ungrateful people on the planet Not only did we (or our forefathers) steal land and racially oppress black South Africans but we never asked for forgiveness for apartheid crimes against humanity committed against black south africans Nelson Mandela and the ANC extended a hand of reconciliation to white South Africans and yet we have never repented for apartheid or made reparations And now we have this right wing Afriforum (protector of white supremacy) causing havoc and trying to undermine South Africa Unbelievable - I have long said whites in South Africa have no moral compass In a “free” South Africa white people have remained highly privileged while black South Africans languish in poverty (manufactured in apartheid)
- Sep 27, 20263.8x their median
1. Afriforum is anti black South Africans 2. Afriforum is anti transformation and historical justice 3. Afriforum is no friend of South Africa
- Sep 28, 20262.1x their median
We honestly can’t carry on like this. JHB is under ANC and ANC doesn’t want to touch illegal foreigners. There is no political will from the ANC to fix the city… they have all the powers we need new leadership https://t.co/VXwp26cJQH
- Sep 27, 2026
Julius Malema confirms that he is a shona from Zimbabwe. 🇿🇼🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/vY32Zx5Odl
- Sep 27, 2026
The “Construction Mafia” in South Africa is no longer a localised provincial site invasion. It has become a national extortion economy affecting public infrastructure, inflating project costs, and deciding which schools, roads, clinics and water works get built. It began in KZN as armed “business forums” demanding cuts of contracts. It now sits in procurement, subcontracting, plant hire, security and, in some metros, and the municipal supply chain itself. Government estimates the direct cost in lost economic output to about R17 billion a year, “with billions more lost before a project gets off the ground.” In 2024, Department of Public Works and Infrastructure said 164 of 206 of its own infrastructure projects were delayed (79%), with R1.3 billion spent that year and R2.9 billion over several years still incomplete. Causes included late client payments, weak project control, contractor default and site disruption. The scams: 1. Groups arrive armed, claim to represent “the community,” and demand 30% of contract value, nominated subcontractors, or cash. Work stops until they are paid or given a stake. 2. A 30% demand of local partners. National Treasury has confirmed the 30% rule does not apply to private contracts and is not a licence to extort. The syndicates treat it as one. 3. Forced labour and dummy SMMEs. Contractors are compelled to put forum-linked companies on the books. Many exist only on paper. Unqualified labour is forced onto site. Quality collapses; costs rise. 4. Equipment theft and sabotage as collection. Graders, generators and copper are stolen or sites are vandalised until protection money is paid. 5. Front companies and recycling. After blacklisting, directors resign, the entity is renamed, family members become new directors, and the same network bids again. 2014-2015: Origin: Two KZN township groups - Delangokubona Business Forum and KwaMashu Youth in Action - began invading sites. They later formed the Federation for Radical Economic Transformation, subsequently renamed the Black Business Federation. Delangokubona still operates separately in a loose alliance. The method was copied into Gauteng from 2017-18 and then into the Western Cape and Eastern Cape. 2015-2019: As specialised policing and prosecution capacity across the state thinned during the State Capture years, the forums professionalised. Industry accounts say almost all major construction sites in KZN were affected in this window. In January 2019 Aveng–Strabag terminated a R1.65 billion Mtentu Bridge contract on the N2 Wild Coast after 84 days off site following armed threats and protest action. A R11 billion Montrose Mega City housing project in Randfontein, launched in 2017, stalled after 2017-18 with contemporaneous accounts citing “forum demands” and “failed bulk services”. The site was later stripped. 2019 : SAFCEC and GI-TOC put 183 infrastructure projects worth more than R63 billion as disrupted by that year. Public Works and National Treasury still use it as the official baseline - roads not built, clinics delayed, water schemes stalled. 2020-2024: Extortion cases nationally (all sectors) ran at 6 056 reported between April 2019 and March 2024, with 2 389 arrests and only 178 convictions. Construction remains the primary subset. Links with taxi associations as enforcers were now being recorded. At the Lower uMkhomazi water project an altercation left a ward councillor and two security guards dead. 2024 onwards: The Durban Declaration between Public Works, Treasury and SAPS created hotlines, economic-infrastructure task teams and a blacklisting push with more than 770 cases reported. There is still no official figure for what the “construction mafia” itself took in cash, dummy subcontracts or protection fees. Treasury and Public Works put more than 180 projects worth R63 billion as disrupted since 2019 - the value of sites hit, not money stolen - while estimating about R17 billion a year in lost output.
- Sep 27, 2026
Not the Boks' day despite a massive fight back in Perth, well played @wallabies 🤝 #Springboks #ForeverGreenForeverGold https://t.co/c9a8YkrtlN
- Sep 27, 2026
https://t.co/2cfvypmdpF
- Sep 28, 2026
We must all go and vote during these coming elections. Not voting is voting so go and choose someone different go choose a party that you believe is serious about changing things in your hood. Don’t vote for a personality or an ideology vote for change real change in your street https://t.co/FSv2Zv6FA0
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 670 interactions against 140K followers, an engagement rate of 0.499%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 81% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 20K times each, and 3.40% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 14.1% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.4K interactions, about 9.5x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #forevergreenforevergold, #actionsamanifestolaunch, #anc.
- What is Tumisho Masha's engagement rate on X?
- Tumisho Masha (@TumishoMasha) has an engagement rate of 0.499%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 139,693 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.499%, Tumisho Masha sits above the 50th percentile of the 213,098 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 @TumishoMasha have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 81% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @TumishoMasha post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.8 posts per day across the measured window.