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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.005%
of 610K followers
Per impression
0.414%
7.7K views on a typical post
Reach
1.27%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
32
interactions (median)
Saved
0.026%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.47/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Sunday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,798 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,879 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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.

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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 18:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video77% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link13% 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

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  • 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

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  • 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.

    4.1K704951683K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 2026129x their median

    Suliman Carrim and his legal team are disrespecting South Africa and the judiciary. https://t.co/epuCcQ6HoV

    3.2K70516440404K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.1K454357167476K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    1.3K49012138193K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 202649x their median

    In Sathafrica! Our motherland https://t.co/AjLyKPXu7T

    1.1K40001167K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 202628x their median

    Chasing lizards when crocodiles are against you https://t.co/i7bLu3Nk7V

    57828601825K viewsView on X
  • 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

    58721105065K viewsView on X
  • 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

    54227301325K 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.

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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.

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