Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL engagement report
@koko_matshela - 185K followers on X
Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 17, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 193 interactions against 185K followers, an engagement rate of 0.104%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 15,519 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 20K times each, and 0.959% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 71% carry an image or video and 31% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.0K interactions, about 26x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #corporategovernance, #leadership, #musangwe.
Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 17, 2026. Recurring tags: #corporategovernance, #leadership, #musangwe.
Compared with accounts its own size
Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL's engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 42% 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 0.104%, Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,969 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.128%.
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 16:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 71% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 31% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 71% 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.
- 31% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 332 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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 6, 202626x their median
It is now after 3pm. Commissioner Khumalo has started, and the funeral just began 😳 https://t.co/Ua7rzoLFm3
- Sep 14, 202625x their median
Hay Mabhakaniya you send off is lit 🔥…… ningayeki https://t.co/nZFYjEpd9d
- Aug 12, 202615x their median
Buti Manamela is incompetent, incoherent, incorrigible, and cannot be saved. He must just go! After claiming to approve the appointment of 4 Advisors to the NSFAS Administrator, he now says he does not know how much they are being paid, and whether or not he approved the amounts. If just 2 Advisors invoiced NSFAS nearly HALF A MILLION for July alone. Without even counting the cost of the Administrator, his Advisors alone are likely to cost the entity over R 24 MILLION over the period. All of this without any approval from the Minister of Finance as is required by the Act. In the video he is just aimlessly mumbling! You can barely make out what he is saying. South Africa's students deserve better than this. Buti Manamela is not the solution and cannot be trusted by the youth of this country, students in particular!
- Aug 5, 202614x their median
Advocate Johnson was a fiercely loyal soldier. When her underworld handlers gave the order to arrest a target, she was willing to do whatever it took—even fabricate evidence. She did exactly that in my case. The @NPA_Prosecutes invented emails out of thin air and used them to arrest me and my family. They've never denied the emails were fake. Their only response? To demand how the fabrication was uncovered. Three years later, they've buried their heads in the sand, hoping the case disappears and that easily fooled South Africans forget. But based on today's testimony at the Madlanga Commission, she's heading straight to jail.
- Aug 24, 20268.5x their median
I had never thought about it this way. This framing is actually interesting. The ANC will say, “But they were elected.” The MKP will counter that money plays a very big role during the ANC elective conference — and that those elections are a farce.😉 https://t.co/bOm0VGbUeb
- Aug 21, 20265.2x their median
The funeral service began earlier today, and it is deeply painful, as the person being laid to rest was an Honourable Member of Parliament who had fallen into dishonour. https://t.co/OzupMpkLBs
- Sep 7, 20265.1x their median
Nothing would please me more than to see the ANC die a painful death in my lifetime. https://t.co/DTuOCpdl0P
- Aug 20, 20264.8x their median
Would you be able to caption this for me? https://t.co/Mbx6WSDUJ9
- Aug 29, 20264.8x their median
My three brothers and nephew. Lots of goodwill💪🏿 https://t.co/dlt8BlmLSf
- Aug 29, 20264.6x their median
The goodness of God has outrun every accusation against us. https://t.co/bwPKL7ooCh
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 193 interactions against 185K followers, an engagement rate of 0.104%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 15,519 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 20K times each, and 0.959% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 71% carry an image or video and 31% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.0K interactions, about 26x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #corporategovernance, #leadership, #musangwe.
- What is Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL's engagement rate on X?
- Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL (@koko_matshela) has an engagement rate of 0.104%, based on the median interactions across 35 original posts from the last 30 days against 185,012 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.104%, Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,969 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 @koko_matshela have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @koko_matshela post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.6 posts per day across the measured window.