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Daily Maverick engagement report

@dailymaverick - 572K followers on X

Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 572K followers
Per impression
0.059%
1.7K views on a typical post
Reach
0.3%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.33/day
active 3% of days
Peak time
06:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 572K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% of 3,917 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 1.7K times each, and 0.059% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.295% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 30% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 27 interactions, about 27x its own typical post.

Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Daily Maverick's engagement rate beats 3% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 4% 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%, Daily Maverick sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,996 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99154.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,996 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 96,714 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile154.7%

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 06:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 06:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 06:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%53K
01:00 UTC-2%54K
02:00 UTC-3%52K
03:00 UTC-4%56K
04:00 UTC-6%45K
05:00 UTC-4%43K
06:00 UTC-4%50K
07:00 UTC-5%54K
08:00 UTC-4%63K
09:00 UTC-3%72K
10:00 UTC-2%75K
11:00 UTC-3%82K
12:00 UTC-2%90K
13:00 UTC-2%99K
14:00 UTC-3%102K
15:00 UTC-2%105K
16:00 UTC-4%103K
17:00 UTC-3%95K
18:00 UTC-1%89K
19:00 UTC-2%84K
20:00 UTC-1%78K
21:00 UTC-1%69K
22:00 UTC-2%60K
23:00 UTC-2%54K
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%239K
Monday0%303K
Tuesday-3%305K
Wednesday-1%259K
Thursday-2%251K
Friday-3%260K
Saturday+3%234K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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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 1 interaction against 572K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% of 3,917 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 1.7K times each, and 0.059% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.295% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 30% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 27 interactions, about 27x its own typical post.

What is Daily Maverick's engagement rate on X?
Daily Maverick (@dailymaverick) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 571,638 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At under 0.001%, Daily Maverick sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,996 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 @dailymaverick have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 3% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @dailymaverick post?
Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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