EWN Reporter engagement report
@ewnreporter - 792K followers on X
Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 40 interactions against 792K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% of 3,774 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 13K times each, and 0.295% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video and 26% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 63x its own typical post.
Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tag: #madlangacommission.
Compared with accounts its own size
EWN Reporter's engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 23% 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 0.005%, EWN Reporter sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 | 0.08% |
| 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 09:00 UTC, and Friday 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 20, 202663x their median
“I am still standing on what I said that all undocumented people in the country ‘abahambe’,” said Mduduzi Myeza, Mayor of Inkosi Langalibalele Municipality. He was speaking outside the KZN High Court in PMB where he was attending a case for making ‘hateful’ comments. TCG https://t.co/cqkE4Cun3d
- Aug 20, 202643x their median
“We (were) not there to talk about land, apartheid or how to hate black people, it’s none of that,” said Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, leader of March and March, on her meeting with AfriForum. Ngobese-Zuma said she expected to face some backlash after meeting with the group. TCG https://t.co/qipkYvONEn
- Aug 30, 202633x their median
HAWKS CONFIRM ARREST IN TEMBISA TENDER FRAUD CASE The Hawks have arrested a 37 year-old businessman linked to tender fraud worth R2-billion at the Tembisa Hospital. The suspect was arrested at the OR Tambo Aiport as he arrived from a trip abroad. KJ https://t.co/SxJgcZTPEw
- Aug 19, 202615x their median
[WATCH] The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport believes it has begun to unravel what it calls the ‘Guardrail mafia.’ The Department spends millions every year replacing guardrails that are stolen from its roads. Two men have been arrested & are appearing in court today. TCG https://t.co/X1Htq5aSM2
- Aug 28, 202612x their median
[JUST IN] The uMkhonto WeSizwe Party has announced its mayoral candidates; Johannesburg: Bongani Baloyi Ekurhuleni: Thulani Shongwe EThekwini: Zandile Hlophe-Mkhwanazi Mangaung: Mapaseka Mothibi Buffalo City: Mzwandile Vaaiboom NMB: Mvuleni Map TCG. https://t.co/Ie5clVDYb0
- Aug 31, 202611x their median
The accused have now objected to Mr Tefo’s presence, saying they are paying legal counsel for their matter to be heard. He has been told to leave until he can show proof that he has been readmitted as a practising advocate. @MakiLeshoro https://t.co/Bu6tIh20dH
- Aug 19, 20267.9x their median
The KwaZulu-Natal Transport Department said it suspects the people behind the theft of guardrails are also the same one’s contracted by the provincial government to supply them. Department Spokesperson, Ndabezinhle Sibiya… https://t.co/sUT9gIzpWr
- Aug 31, 20267.3x their median
Malesela Tefo appearing before the Matlala trial. He says he is bringing an application on behalf of his foundation because he believes the accused are being treated unfairly. @MakiLeshoro https://t.co/sQl4vrWjEP
- Aug 28, 20265.7x their median
Chris Steyn after being granted R10000 bail by the Germiston Magistrates Court. Julius Mkhwanazi remains behind bars as judgement for bail application has been reserved. @MakiLeshoro https://t.co/aZQMeJOGr5
- Aug 19, 20265.3x their median
The case against alleged mastermind in the killing of DJ Warras — Victor Majola has been postponed to September for him to sort out funding his trial. @MakiLeshoro https://t.co/6a6dvKKUDP
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 40 interactions against 792K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% of 3,774 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 13K times each, and 0.295% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video and 26% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 63x its own typical post.
- What is EWN Reporter's engagement rate on X?
- EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 58 original posts from the last 30 days against 791,882 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.005%, EWN Reporter sits above the 10th 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 @ewnreporter have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @ewnreporter post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.9 posts per day across the measured window.