Eyewitness News engagement report
@ewnupdates - 1.7M followers on X
Measured over 856 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 7, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 856 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 15,519 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 3.5K times each, and 0.113% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.212% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 28.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 856 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.6K interactions, about 389x its own typical post.
Measured over 856 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 7, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Eyewitness News's engagement rate beats 4% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 9% 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%, Eyewitness News sits below the 10th percentile of the 157,102 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.4% |
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 07:00 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% | 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 | 2% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 2% 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.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 155 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 29, 2026389x their median
Ntshavheni slams false narrative about SA: 'If you are not happy, leave in peace' https://t.co/XfMh7oLCvJ
- Sep 11, 2026306x their median
IEC tells court ANC uploaded candidate list 5mins before deadline. https://t.co/Er4E9KAkWQ
- Aug 31, 2026273x their median
Malema has run out of legal options after Parliament’s Ethics Committee found that his questioning of the judge on a personal case at the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was out of line. https://t.co/HdKSz2D9px
- Oct 3, 2026236x their median
Mabe at risk of losing his Porsche Carrera and Steyn City property https://t.co/ufeEMVoOS5
- Sep 11, 2026174x their median
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has revealed that with just two days to go to the deadline, the African National Congress (ANC) had not submitted candidates’ lists to contest local government elections for almost all municipalities across the country. https://t.co/mC02fdvgPa
- Sep 4, 2026156x their median
Eskom’s proposed electricity price increase by an average of 8.83% for the 2027/2028 financial year is open for public consultation. https://t.co/ctaEmXnVko
- Sep 21, 2026131x their median
NPA to prosecute Mbalula and Malema for accusing Bergview principal of rape https://t.co/RqZZ0X3oDi
- Sep 18, 2026109x their median
The South African squad made history at the tournament, bringing home a World Championship bronze medal. https://t.co/joZRjrt8Gp
- Oct 7, 2026101x their median
A research group on global organised crime has found that South Africa is emerging as a drug-production hub for international export. https://t.co/E6hp24MGqh
- Sep 29, 202694x their median
The decision leaves South Africa and Zimbabwe to continue with the bidding process with the Confederation of African Football. https://t.co/V8k2u2C6Op
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 4 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 856 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 15,519 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 3.5K times each, and 0.113% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.212% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 28.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 856 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.6K interactions, about 389x its own typical post.
- What is Eyewitness News's engagement rate on X?
- Eyewitness News (@ewnupdates) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 856 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,670,325 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Eyewitness News sits below the 10th percentile of the 157,102 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 @ewnupdates have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 4% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @ewnupdates post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 28.53 posts per day across the measured window.