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World Bank Africa engagement report

@WorldBankAfrica - 588K followers on X

Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.005%
of 588K followers
Per impression
0.964%
2.9K views on a typical post
Reach
0.49%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
28
interactions (median)
Saved
0.07%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.37/day
active 30% of days
Peak time
07:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 28 interactions against 588K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% of 3,899 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 2.9K times each, and 0.964% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.485% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 113 interactions, about 4.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #integratingafrica, #burkinafaso, #cameroon.

Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #integratingafrica, #burkinafaso, #cameroon.

Compared with accounts its own size

World Bank Africa's engagement rate beats 24% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 51% 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 0.005%, World Bank Africa sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99155.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,856 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 97,248 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile155.6%

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 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 07:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 07:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%53K
01:00 UTC-2%53K
02:00 UTC-3%52K
03:00 UTC-4%55K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%43K
06:00 UTC-4%50K
07:00 UTC-5%54K
08:00 UTC-4%63K
09:00 UTC-3%72K
10:00 UTC-2%75K
11:00 UTC-3%81K
12:00 UTC-2%90K
13:00 UTC-2%98K
14:00 UTC-3%101K
15:00 UTC-2%105K
16:00 UTC-4%102K
17:00 UTC-3%95K
18:00 UTC-1%88K
19:00 UTC-2%83K
20:00 UTC-1%77K
21:00 UTC-1%69K
22:00 UTC-2%60K
23:00 UTC-2%53K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%238K
Monday0%302K
Tuesday-3%302K
Wednesday-1%257K
Thursday-2%250K
Friday-3%259K
Saturday+3%233K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 23, 20264.0x their median

    60% of Africa's population is under 25. That's not just a statistic. It's a generation ready to build, create, and lead. The continent's #digital future belongs to them. 🌍 Read more: https://t.co/EZ3knffIPR https://t.co/BJEIZq2xUw

    7235249.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20262.8x their median

    Road freight regulations vary widely across Africa. One restrictive country can affect the efficiency of an entire trade corridor. Explore our interactive chart to see how regulatory barriers shape regional connectivity. https://t.co/OyBDkmg0Wx https://t.co/8nh82dbIRn

    5024215.3K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20262.2x their median

    Africa's economy is growing. So why isn't poverty falling? The current growth model isn't enough. A new @WorldBankGroup + @AFD_France blog lays out 5 insights to change that — starting with the 25 MILLION jobs Africa needs every year through 2050: https://t.co/EKQSsyrlrU https://t.co/KS5Hxp66g9

    4612125.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20261.7x their median

    AI + satellites = smarter trade. New @WorldBankGroup research shows how geospatial data can pinpoint congestion, improve freight flows, and strengthen trade corridors across Africa. 🌍🚛    Read more: https://t.co/9xxBpOH4gl https://t.co/WEVOzE2Pxr

    3115012.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20261.5x their median

    LIVE EVENT | Africa doesn't trade too little. It trades too disconnected: from its own factories, value chains, and jobs. Be there for the launch Aug 28.   Co-hosted by @_AfricanUnion & @eca_official. Sign up today: https://t.co/lzz7Fap0hl #IntegratingAfrica https://t.co/W9AKe8RMBN

    931203.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 2026

    What will it take to make Africa’s regional markets work better for businesses? Find out on Aug 28. Sign up today: https://t.co/lzz7Fap0hl #IntegratingAfrica Co-hosted by @_AfricanUnion & @eca_official. https://t.co/FGESXsJDYf

    2811104.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 2026

    NEW REPORT: South Africa has hundreds of unfilled digital job vacancies — yet unemployment remains high. A new @WorldBankGroup report tells us why, and what it will take to fix this: https://t.co/HhaHeofNzB

    269224.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 2026

    826 million people still live in extreme poverty. In dozens of countries, extreme poverty rates remain above 40% and progress among the poorest populations has slowed sharply. Why the $3-a-day benchmark still matters: https://t.co/NNb63UFgti https://t.co/rijgAgTzQA

    2312202.3K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 2026

    Creative industries already generate $2.3T in annual revenue and employ 200M+ people worldwide. Yet they receive less than 1% of global financing in emerging markets. The numbers make the investment case. Explore the data. https://t.co/Tvix16nAVZ #CreativityCreatesJobs https://t.co/hBXzcj9kqZ

    2312013.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 2026

    🚨 5 days to go! The deadline to apply for the @WorldBankGroup Africa Fellowship program is approaching! Are you: ✔️ A PhD student or recent doctoral graduate ✔️ A national of Sub-Saharan Africa ✔️ 32 years old or younger Apply by August 25! https://t.co/CVDcSla5c8 #WBGFellows https://t.co/pv3iUJtRkX

    2411004.4K viewsView on X

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

#integratingafrica#burkinafaso#cameroon#chad#creativitycreatesjobs

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 28 interactions against 588K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% of 3,899 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 2.9K times each, and 0.964% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.485% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 113 interactions, about 4.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #integratingafrica, #burkinafaso, #cameroon.

What is World Bank Africa's engagement rate on X?
World Bank Africa (@WorldBankAfrica) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 30 original posts from the last 30 days against 587,710 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.005%, World Bank Africa sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,856 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 @WorldBankAfrica have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 24% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @WorldBankAfrica post?
Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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