Charles Onyango-Obbo engagement report
@cobbo3 - 547K followers on X
Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 90 interactions against 547K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 45 original posts, its engagement rate beats 38% of 3,774 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 10K times each, and 0.867% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 27% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 56% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 529 interactions, about 5.9x its own typical post.
Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Charles Onyango-Obbo's engagement rate beats 38% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 47% 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 0.017%, Charles Onyango-Obbo sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 10:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 16, 20265.9x their median
https://t.co/GRdGBxqCgq
- Aug 25, 20265.0x their median
Ethiopia is now largely self-sufficient in food. However, not too long ago, it was a country ravaged by famine and reliant on international aid. Illustrating just how dependent Ethiopia was on food aid during that period, Hailemariam Desalegn (who served as Prime Minister from 2012 to 2018) told an Africa School of Government forum in Kigali on Tuesday that the joke used to be: "Ethiopians prayed for rain in Canada, because that is where the food aid came from." Dramatic indeed!
- Aug 15, 20264.7x their median
Several prominent African authors turned to toilet paper, paper scraps, and smuggled items to continue writing while imprisoned for political dissent: -Wole Soyinka (Nigeria): Imprisoned in solitary confinement during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1969), he was denied writing materials. He manufactured his own ink and wrote poems and notes on toilet paper, cigarette packs, and book margins. These formed his memoir The Man Died and poetry collections. -Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenya): Detained without trial in 1977, he wrote his famous novel Devil on the Cross (Caitaani Mutharaba-inĩ) entirely on rough prison-issued toilet paper using a borrowed pen. -Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt): Imprisoned in 1981 under President Anwar Sadat, the feminist writer and physician wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison on rolls of toilet paper using an eyebrow pencil smuggled to her cell. -Abdilatif Abdalla (Kenya): Imprisoned from 1969 to 1973, he wrote his celebrated Swahili poetry collection Sauti ya Dhiki ("Voice of Agony") on sheets of toilet paper, hiding some by wrapping them in plastic and placing them inside his cell's toilet.
- Aug 26, 20264.0x their median
"I have read St. Paul's letters to the Corinthians [in the New Statement], but I have never seen the Corinthians' reply to St. Paul". -Kenyan lawyer and scholar PLO Lumumba at the African School of Governance forum in Kigali, on why young Africans should continue writing letters to African presidents on vexing issues about the continent, even if they will be ignored or never get a reply back.😂😂😂
- Aug 15, 20263.7x their median
Alex Mukulu: The final curtain falls on giant of Ugandan theatre. He was the best. Rest in Peace Alex. https://t.co/bXu18285Km
- Aug 15, 20263.5x their median
Sierra Leone’s $0.23/kWh residential electricity price is easily the highest in Africa. At $0.01/kWh Ethiopia's residential electricity price is the lowest. https://t.co/AZXoDV8D9l
- Aug 19, 20262.8x their median
Ethiopia’s planned $12.5 billion airport has sparked an international bidding war as American and Chinese firms vie for control over a project that could reshape logistics across the Horn of Africa. https://t.co/iuLAPvmBMM
- Aug 17, 20262.7x their median
The Rwanda Judiciary announced that the country’s courts received 3,620 divorce cases in the first 6 months of 2026. There were 129 working days in the first half of 2026, resulting in an average of approximately 28.06 divorce cases filed per working day. Rwanda data can be intriguing!
- Aug 14, 20262.7x their median
"If a chief's mind is filled only with war, his palace will soon be filled with ashes." - Yoruba Proverb (Nigeria)
- Aug 22, 20262.6x their median
.@AndrewMwenda argues Uganda State House “imposter” Nuwagaba was part of a grand conspiracy to feed false intelligence directly to President M7 & manipulate the state into protecting crooks, and distract security agencies from investigating corruption 1/2 https://t.co/61JYYW4Qz7
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 90 interactions against 547K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 45 original posts, its engagement rate beats 38% of 3,774 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 10K times each, and 0.867% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 27% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 56% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 529 interactions, about 5.9x its own typical post.
- What is Charles Onyango-Obbo's engagement rate on X?
- Charles Onyango-Obbo (@cobbo3) has an engagement rate of 0.017%, based on the median interactions across 45 original posts from the last 30 days against 546,941 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.017%, Charles Onyango-Obbo sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @cobbo3 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 38% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @cobbo3 post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.87 posts per day across the measured window.