African engagement report
@ali_naka - 494K followers on X
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 47 interactions against 494K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% of 4,273 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 7.4K times each, and 0.639% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.49% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 90% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 149K interactions, about 3162x its own typical post.
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
African's engagement rate beats 28% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,273 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 38% 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 0.009%, African sits above the 10th percentile of the 41,299 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.013%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.083% |
| 75th percentile | 0.445% |
| 90th percentile | 2.07% |
| 99th percentile | 144.1% |
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 15:00 UTC, and Thursday 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% | 58K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 57K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 49K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 55K |
| 07:00 UTC | -4% | 59K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 69K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 80K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 83K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 90K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 108K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 111K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 115K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 112K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 104K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 65K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 59K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 254K |
| Monday | +2% | 326K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 350K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 312K |
| Thursday | -2% | 265K |
| Friday | -3% | 274K |
| Saturday | +3% | 248K |
Best tweets
- Feb 28, 20263162x their median
This is the reason why there is a WAR Trump is in #EpsteinFiles https://t.co/VXi8H9wPEo
- Aug 27, 202615x their median
🎙️Breaking News 🎙️ The MKP expels Dr Khanyisile Litchfield Tshabalala She is one of the most ideologically sound and authentic activists I have ever met. Disappointing https://t.co/MTaIXTrPFg
- Aug 27, 20265.8x their median
BREAKING!!! Zambia's Main Opposition leader, Brian Mundubile and his Vice President, Makebi Zulu, have just been locked up at Lusaka Central Police this evening on Treason charges. The two have been the main challengers of President Hakainde Hichilema in a disputed election last week. Notably, Hichilema hismelf was charged for treason by his predecessor in 2017
- Aug 27, 20263.8x their median
For a man who had false treason charges slapped on him . It’s crazy that he is doing exactly that to his main rival! https://t.co/VJniT8rUEr
- Aug 25, 20261.7x their median
If you're seeing this, kindly quote with anything: Picture, video, random fact, advice... anything. 👀
- Aug 27, 2026
Your problem, @bmutebuka, is your delusion that you occupy a higher intellectual and moral plane than everyone else. If you have assigned Hopewell and me to the same “level,” I gladly embrace it. Hopewell is a globally acclaimed journalist and filmmaker whose work has earned international recognition. You have no authority to allocate anyone’s place in life, particularly when your own conduct and verbosity have been criticised by judges in England. Your entire argument rests on the childish fallacy of guilt by association. Friendship with someone does not mean endorsing every word they utter or everything they do. If that were the standard, Nelson Chamisa would be personally responsible for every insult, lie and defamatory statement published by fanatics claiming to support him, including you. It is extraordinary that a lawyer can move from “Hopewell and Ali know each other” to “Hopewell is Ali’s puppet master or co-conspirator” without producing a single piece of evidence. It is conspiracy gossip dressed up in oversized vocabulary. Before putting other people on trial, remember that verbosity is not intelligence, insinuation is not evidence and using big words does not transform a childish argument into a serious one. Judge Lucy Shepherd told you this and you seem to not have understood what she meant. Hopewell’s record is far beyond anything your obsessive Twitter essays can diminish. Yet you cannot keep his name out of your mouth for a single day: Hopewell this, Hopewell that, Hopewell here, Hopewell there. At this point, your obsession is becoming embarrassing. You do not engage with the substance of his criticism because you cannot answer it. Instead, you attack his friends, speculate about conspiracies and attempt to assassinate his character simply because he criticised your political principal and questioned an opposition project with no publicly verifiable constitution, organogram, accountable leadership structure or coherent strategy. Your mission is clearly to discredit Hopewell, but how does someone who substitutes resentment for evidence and verbosity for thought discredit a global force in journalism? If you want to defend Chamisa, defend him with facts. Produce the constitution. Produce the structures. Produce the political programme. Explain the strategy. Answer the criticism. Stop behaving like an overzealous surrogate who believes that attacking everyone who questions his principal amounts to political thought. It does not. It merely advertises your intellectual insecurity and confirms that the so-called opposition has run out of arguments. How do we take seriously a lawyer who conspires with a mental nutcase like Simba Chikanza or a future leader who runs away from serious journalists and sits with a madman and calls it an interview?
- Aug 27, 2026
Brighton Mutebuka, there is an extraordinary similarity between your performance on Twitter and what Employment Judge Lucy Shepherd recorded about your performance in court. In Mangwanya v National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, Judge Shepherd wrote that when the Employment Judge attempted to move matters forward, assist with appropriate questions and manage the hearing, “Mr Mutebuka made lengthy speeches about bias, bullying and diversity which were not relevant and caused further delay.” That sounds remarkably familiar to anyone who has attempted to debate you on Twitter. You respond to straightforward arguments with extraordinarily long essays, stuffed with big words and unnecessary detours, yet frequently fail to address the central point being debated. Length is not depth. Big words are not evidence of intellect. And verbosity does not transform an irrelevant argument into a relevant one. You support useless politicians and hide this support in big words. What makes this particularly striking is that another judge, in separate proceedings, described grounds you were advancing as “verbose” and said they failed to specify “clearly and coherently with appropriate particulars” the alleged errors of law. So this criticism of verbosity and lack of relevance is not simply coming from people debating you on social media. There is a judicial record of judges encountering similar problems with arguments associated with you. Brighton, using twenty paragraphs where two would suffice does not make an argument intellectually sophisticated. If the twenty paragraphs avoid the actual question, they are still twenty paragraphs of irrelevance. Clarity is a sign of disciplined thinking. Verbosity can sometimes be a way of concealing the absence of a point. Perhaps you should concentrate on your tax-shop business in Leeds. You might do better there than spending your days on Twitter trying to demonstrate intellectual superiority through unnecessarily long and verbose essays on matters where the quality of thinking, rather than the quantity of words, is what ultimately counts. How can a real intellectual get angry that a politician is being held to account for his actions. @BMutebuka
- Aug 27, 2026
Come here @BMutebuka Does this document look familiar? One move and we go nuclear!! https://t.co/TjT5SIOUz2
- Aug 28, 2026
Before putting other people on trial, remember that verbosity is not intelligence, insinuation is not evidence and using big words does not transform a childish argument into a serious one. Judge Lucy Shepherd told you this and you seem to not have understood what she meant @BMutebuka
- Aug 27, 2026
This is what the “Alternative” in Zimbabwe is supporting? https://t.co/llfUIDtxJx
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 47 interactions against 494K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% of 4,273 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 7.4K times each, and 0.639% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.49% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 90% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 149K interactions, about 3162x its own typical post.
- What is African's engagement rate on X?
- African (@ali_naka) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 493,507 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.009%, African sits above the 10th percentile of the 41,299 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 @ali_naka have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 28% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,273 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 @ali_naka post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.53 posts per day across the measured window.