Citizen TV Kenya engagement report
@citizentvkenya - 6.9M followers on X
Measured over 1171 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 6.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 1171 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 20,444 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 5.6K times each, and 0.107% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.082% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 39.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1171 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video and 39% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.4K interactions, about 1393x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #semanacitizen, #citizensundaylive, #jklive.
Measured over 1171 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026. Recurring tags: #semanacitizen, #citizensundaylive, #jklive.
Compared with accounts its own size
Citizen TV Kenya's engagement rate beats 2% 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 7% 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 under 0.001%, Citizen TV Kenya sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,583 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 | 0.677% |
| 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 19:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 63% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 39% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 63% 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.
- 39% 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 175 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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 8, 20261393x their median
Those asking for our plan, our plan is to send you home and return this country to meritocracy - Sifuna to Ruto https://t.co/oWBKmahcUx
- Sep 12, 2026972x their median
Ruto anatembea akisema SHA inafanya, juzi South Rift ameitishwa harambee ya kulipa bill ya hospitali. Mbona hakumtuma kwa SHA? - Edwin Sifuna https://t.co/rumhFSAB5x
- Jul 15, 20261050x their median
Text no longer retained for this post.
- Aug 16, 2026696x their median
Babu Owino: Ol-Kalou wakipewa viatu, hapa Homa Bay mnapewa rungu. Badala ya boat, mnapewa panga. Badala ya gas cooker, mnawekwa kwa sanduku ya maiti https://t.co/9voWrtuRtO
- Aug 16, 2026644x their median
Homa Bay residents turn up in large numbers to welcome the Linda Mwananchi team https://t.co/xP5cy23ejw
- Sep 5, 2026618x their median
'Walisema mimi ni moto ya masagarii saizi nawachoma '' Edwin Sifuna to Kabula residents https://t.co/egrj44Bd1Y
- Oct 11, 2026614x their median
John Methu: If I were to name moles, Ndindi Nyoro's name would feature very prominently #CitizenSundayLive https://t.co/HNZFv2IByN
- Oct 15, 2026525x their median
Kaikai: There is an urgent need to review how President Ruto communicates on the campaign trail. He sounds argumentative, as though he is quarrelling with the crowd. He comes across as one of the people attending the rally. You know how many steps that takes the presidency down? Very many. This undermines our democracy #CitizenNewsGang @LinusKaikai
- Sep 29, 2026513x their median
Protests in Lamu as locals demand compensation before groundbreaking for the East Africa Oil Refinery https://t.co/zjMh6Zb5vS
- Aug 17, 2026502x their median
Babu Owino: Yesterday, we encountered some occupational hazards as we were going to Homa Bay. What is so surprising is the manner in which the attacks from goons were organized by elected leaders in this country. Come 2027, Peter Kaluma will not see the doors of Parliament again. Comrades here and I will ensure that Peter Kaluma goes home
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 6 interactions against 6.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 1171 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 20,444 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 5.6K times each, and 0.107% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.082% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 39.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1171 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video and 39% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.4K interactions, about 1393x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #semanacitizen, #citizensundaylive, #jklive.
- What is Citizen TV Kenya's engagement rate on X?
- Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 1171 original posts from the last 30 days against 6,884,361 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Citizen TV Kenya sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,583 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 @citizentvkenya have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @citizentvkenya post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 39.07 posts per day across the measured window.