The Witness engagement report
@WitnessKZN - 71K followers on X
Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 15, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 0 interactions against 71K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% of 21,185 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 334 times each, and 0% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.473% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5 interactions. Recurring topics include #crimenews, #ekurhulenimurders, #thewitness.
Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 15, 2026. Recurring tags: #crimenews, #ekurhulenimurders, #thewitness.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Witness's engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 0% 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%, The Witness sits below the 10th percentile of the 213,186 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
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 10:00 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 | -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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 97% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 0% 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.
- 97% 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 211 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 15, 2026
The bail application of the fifth accused in the murder of uMngeni Municipality DA councillor Nhlalayenza Ndlovu has been postponed for four weeks to verify a previous conviction disputed by the accused. https://t.co/zQd29tY37Z
- Sep 14, 2026
The ANC did not fall victim to a technical glitch when it failed to submit candidate lists for six municipalities ahead of the November 4 local government elections — it simply ran out of time. https://t.co/BFkjU2R58F
- Sep 15, 2026
Three lanes of the N3 eastbound have been closed near Durban’s Tollgate Bridge following heavy rainfall and localised flooding on Tuesday. https://t.co/WGtAvleYpi
- Sep 15, 2026
A brave Grade 11 pupil put his life on the line to protect his younger sister, confronting a knife-wielding robber and being stabbed as he tried to save her during their walk to school in Raisethorpe. https://t.co/AGExeoAHop
- Sep 15, 2026
ICYMI: The South African Weather Service (Saws) has issued a level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms, valid for Tuesday. https://t.co/Qt67uDT92s
- Sep 14, 2026
A fifth woman’s body has been discovered in the Kempton Park area, Gauteng, deepening fears as police investigate a string of deaths involving women in the area. https://t.co/eI8meN4vTd
- Sep 15, 2026
Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has confirmed the discovery of the eighth body on Tuesday evening. https://t.co/UTUVSrK5ro
- Sep 15, 2026
Another ruthless serial killer — gender-based violence — has claimed a fourth woman’s life in Richmond in just weeks. https://t.co/pjOtfBuMGE
- Sep 14, 2026
A taxi driver with an outstanding warrant of arrest has been arrested after he was caught transporting 30 passengers in a vehicle licensed to carry only 15. https://t.co/lJr187IFrA
- Sep 14, 2026
In Pietermaritzburg, an electricity fault affecting parts of Epworth, Hayfields, Lincoln Meade, Bellevue and Scottsville may result in traffic lights being out at some intersections. Motorists are urged to treat the affected intersections as four-way stops. https://t.co/yzbs4ymSDU
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 0 interactions against 71K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% of 21,185 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 334 times each, and 0% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.473% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5 interactions. Recurring topics include #crimenews, #ekurhulenimurders, #thewitness.
- What is The Witness's engagement rate on X?
- The Witness (@WitnessKZN) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 60 original posts from the last 30 days against 70,590 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0%, The Witness sits below the 10th percentile of the 213,186 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 @WitnessKZN have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @WitnessKZN post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.