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Eyewitness News engagement report

@ewnupdates - 1.7M followers on X

Measured over 121 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 24, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 1.7M followers
Per impression
0.132%
3.8K views on a typical post
Reach
0.23%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
5
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.03/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
09:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 5 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 121 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 1,003 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 3.8K times each, and 0.132% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.228% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 121 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 317 interactions, about 63x its own typical post.

Measured over 121 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 24, 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 (1,003 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 6% 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 10,326 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.007%.

p100.001%
p250.007%
p50 (median)0.048%
p750.321%
p902.48%
p99354.0%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 10,326 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 442,521 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 percentile0.001%
25th percentile0.007%
50th percentile0.048%
75th percentile0.321%
90th percentile2.48%
99th percentile354.0%

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 Tuesday 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: 09:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 96%Busiest hour: 09:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC0%15K
01:00 UTC+4%15K
02:00 UTC-1%14K
03:00 UTC-2%15K
04:00 UTC-5%12K
05:00 UTC-5%12K
06:00 UTC-7%13K
07:00 UTC-6%14K
08:00 UTC-7%17K
09:00 UTC-2%19K
10:00 UTC-2%20K
11:00 UTC-2%22K
12:00 UTC-1%24K
13:00 UTC+1%27K
14:00 UTC-2%29K
15:00 UTC-1%30K
16:00 UTC-1%30K
17:00 UTC-1%28K
18:00 UTC+1%25K
19:00 UTC0%24K
20:00 UTC0%22K
21:00 UTC+1%19K
22:00 UTC+1%17K
23:00 UTC+1%15K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 96%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+8%59K
Monday+8%72K
Tuesday+1%94K
Wednesday-4%78K
Thursday-3%71K
Friday-5%73K
Saturday+2%64K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video1% of posts+79%+73% to +85%5.8K
Outbound link100% of posts-49%-50% to -47%6.1K
Typical length--7%-8% to -5%9.0K
  • 1% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% 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 163 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 7% 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

  • Aug 23, 202663x their median

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    258572019K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202636x their median

    Just a day after closing ranks around MP Mark Burke, the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Parliament has decided to remove him from serving on Parliament’s finance committees. https://t.co/KpdAWAauDy

    9457171013K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 202633x their median

    Ramaphosa says ANC has done well in transforming lives of black South Africans https://t.co/g98ekHBXyt

    3510992020K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 202629x their median

    Five years since Gauteng Health whistleblower Babita Deokaran's assassination https://t.co/g76bYBtvqO

    111303319K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 202628x their median

    NPA to formally drop charges against crime boss Khumalo and co-accused https://t.co/C7BiMd5df3

    11518527.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 202619x their median

    The ANC has listed Reverend Frank Chikane as one of three finalists for its mayoral candidate in the city of Johannesburg. https://t.co/giS8H95bHj

    51333822K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 202619x their median

    The investigating officer in the case against suspended EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi and five co-accused says Wiandre Pretorius took his own life after DNA evidence placed him in Emmanuel Mbense’s bedroom on the night he was killed. https://t.co/bkcG3vaidh

    7223008.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202618x their median

    DJ Warras murder: Warrant of arrest issued for third suspect Hlengiwe Buthelezi https://t.co/1ouABwwK5E

    69192024K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202616x their median

    Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, who also serves as KZN Provincial Commissioner, said the influence of gangs has a far reach, and they are able to infiltrate not just the police, but also the judiciary and Correctional Services. https://t.co/n1IfGktcZp

    6120003.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202615x their median

    AfriForum and the March and March movement have announced a collaborative working group to cooperate on grassroots community safety, legal issues, education, and anti-crime initiatives, including illegal immigration. https://t.co/2epOfjVLmJ

    5091313.5K viewsView on X

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 5 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 121 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 1,003 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 3.8K times each, and 0.132% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.228% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 121 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 317 interactions, about 63x 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 121 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,669,942 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 10,326 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 (1,003 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 09:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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