Zwelinzima Vavi engagement report
@Zwelinzima1 - 610K followers on X
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 32 interactions against 610K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 7.7K times each, and 0.414% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 77% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 44K interactions, about 1371x its own typical post.
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Zwelinzima Vavi's engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 27% 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%, Zwelinzima Vavi sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 18:00 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 | 77% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 13% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 77% 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.
- 13% 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 462 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 12, 20261371x their median
What Palestinians are enduring in Gaza is an unforgivable stain on humanity. https://t.co/n54d6xnouX
- Oct 5, 2026930x their median
Lula habla luego de la primera vuelta: 🗣️"Hubieron 29 millones de personas que no fueron a votar, vamos a hacer un llamado y que Los Bolsonaristas se preparen PORQUE LOS VAMOS A DERROTAR" Un señor este tipo 👏👏👏 https://t.co/0LcosGgcUn
- Aug 23, 2026153x their median
Let us celebrate 🥳 Advocate Adila Hassim SC has received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) as part of its 2026 Honorary Doctorate Celebration. The university recognised her for her deep commitment to constitutional rights, social justice, and human dignity. Notable aspects of her career include •Serving as an evidence leader in the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, a major probe into state corruption and criminality. #MadlangaCommission •Gaining international recognition for representing South Africa in its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). •Co founding SECTION27, a leading public interest law centre, and previously serving as its Director of Litigation. •Leading the legal efforts in the Life Esidimeni Arbitration that secured justice for the families of the 144 mental health patients who died in Gauteng.
- Aug 14, 2026129x their median
Suliman Carrim and his legal team are disrespecting South Africa and the judiciary. https://t.co/epuCcQ6HoV
- Aug 18, 202696x their median
Meeting between March and Mach and AfriForum: I am looking forward to meeting with @JacintaNgobese-Zuma and her team from @MarchAndMarchSA today. @afriforum has a long history of engaging with fellow South Africans to build a better future. https://t.co/RgQGUATRjj
- Aug 19, 202662x their median
There is no such thing as a “university of the people who speak isiZulu” in the first place. Our universities are South African institutions, open to all South Africans regardless of language, ethnicity or province. What she is expressing is a dangerous desire to Balkanise South Africa along ethnic and linguistic lines - to turn our diversity into separate political and territorial enclaves. Colonialism and apartheid tried precisely this through segregation, Bantustans and the deliberate manipulation of ethnic identities to divide and rule. They failed to permanently fracture South Africa, and those attempting to revive the same poisonous politics of ethnic division will fail again. We must defend a united, non-racial and democratic South Africa in which isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Tshivenda, Afrikaans and every other language belong equally to all of us. No ethnic group owns a province, a university or any part of this country. South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We will not allow it to be Balkanised.
- Sep 11, 202649x their median
In Sathafrica! Our motherland https://t.co/AjLyKPXu7T
- Aug 21, 202628x their median
Chasing lizards when crocodiles are against you https://t.co/i7bLu3Nk7V
- Aug 19, 202627x their median
Why are you surprised? Learn from history! One thing that Blade Nzimande used to say is: before you jump on a bus, don't just look at the destination written, but also look at who is driving the bus https://t.co/LmvfUnHhzt
- Aug 14, 202626x their median
Do the ANC leadership ever listen to this as they, through Operation Vulindlela, privatise and involve the private sector in everything, be it Eskom, Transnet, harbours, etc. https://t.co/6n6ERfStem
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 32 interactions against 610K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 7.7K times each, and 0.414% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 77% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 44K interactions, about 1371x its own typical post.
- What is Zwelinzima Vavi's engagement rate on X?
- Zwelinzima Vavi (@Zwelinzima1) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 31 original posts from the last 30 days against 609,637 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.005%, Zwelinzima Vavi sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 @Zwelinzima1 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @Zwelinzima1 post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.47 posts per day across the measured window.