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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 154.7% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 239K |
| Monday | 0% | 303K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 305K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 259K |
| Thursday | -2% | 251K |
| Friday | -3% | 260K |
| Saturday | +3% | 234K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 202627x their median
‘List of ANC informers’ would have been exposed in apartheid-era TRC prosecutions, hearing told https://t.co/o0ewnHl1hx https://t.co/B8B9vHQMJF
- Aug 26, 202618x their median
Gayton McKenzie lashes out at Safa and demands R30m repayment https://t.co/OQADF9L8cZ
- Aug 26, 202610x their median
Removing the Simon’s Town baboons is the liquidation of an asset we cannot buy back https://t.co/kn6E2mqLYv https://t.co/M4iebXfMOT
- Aug 26, 202610x their median
Prosecutors in Germany investigate three bankers over financing of brothel https://t.co/z40iccxiJo
- Aug 26, 202610x their median
A not-so-odd couple: AfriForum and March and March’s dangerous alliance https://t.co/4fyzpHw9ow
- Aug 26, 20267.0x their median
Siya Kolisi brings gravitas as skipper for Boks in crucial second Test https://t.co/OnWjSa6rKK
- Aug 26, 20267.0x their median
Ramaphosa talks reform as GNU partners, opposition parties press on ANC municipal failures https://t.co/CYaIlyuL47
- Aug 26, 20265.0x their median
Urban foraging is a growing trend that calls for better planning https://t.co/ib9tmmfn2Q
- Aug 26, 20265.0x their median
Eastern Cape’s ‘operational’ ambulances leave frontline crews struggling to respond https://t.co/g1jLUIHtMM
- Aug 26, 20264.0x their median
Lower Tokai fynbos ‘can recover after 130 years under pines’ https://t.co/Aa4Lbcyam4
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.