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lawrence freeman engagement report

@lfreemansafrica - 84K followers on X

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 3, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.008%
of 84K followers
Per impression
0.531%
1.3K views on a typical post
Reach
1.58%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
7
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.83/day
active 53% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 7 interactions against 84K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 6,874 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 1.3K times each, and 0.531% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.58% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 22% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 159 interactions, about 23x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #china, #electricity, #ethiopia.

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 3, 2026. Recurring tags: #china, #electricity, #ethiopia.

Compared with accounts its own size

lawrence freeman's engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 5 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 26% 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 0.008%, lawrence freeman sits above the 10th percentile of the 66,258 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.016%.

p100.002%
p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.499%
p902.09%
p99119.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 66,258 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 56,968 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.499%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile119.6%

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 12:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 12:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
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 video22% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link70% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 22% 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.
  • 70% 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 244 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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 18, 202623x their median

    It would be criminal if #Egypt uses its military vs Ethiopia, violating #Ethiopia #sovereignty and its right to develop the potential of the Blue #Nile Basin. Egypt erupts in fury over Ethiopia's plans for three more Nile dams | The National https://t.co/P3aEgTyGxZ

    95372434.7K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 202612x their median

    African nations desperately need large amounts of electricity. #Ethiopia a leader in generating #electricity & supplying power to other nations in the region. This is PROGRESS! “Abiy's $475MN Nile Boom!: Ethiopia's #GERD Exports Hydropower Across Africa” https://t.co/cb6npAV4DJ

    53171133.1K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 202610x their median

    Why I Was Compelled to Defend the Nation-State of Ethiopia. "I have trained myself to think differently. I’ve trained myself to withstand the force of public opinion, ridicule, and peer group pressure. I never wavered" #Ethiopia #GERD #TPLF #PMAbiy https://t.co/nE5f1PDP7Q https://t.co/pweaE9zLmO

    47111023.0K viewsView on X
  • Jul 9, 20265.6x their median

    To secure the sovereignty of #Ethiopia it is imperative that all regions of Ethiopia be economically developed. Raising the wages of all laborers and eliminating poverty is a necessity to fostering peace and stability to the nation. Progress must continue. https://t.co/nLvHGOZjsx

    296401.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20264.7x their median

    It is criminal and deadly for #Africans to be deprived of electricity. No #development without #electricity ! https://t.co/pFy7149jxK

    255031.9K viewsView on X
  • Jul 22, 20264.6x their median

    #Ethiopia #GERD is NOT an existential threat. Honest reporting would confirm that. #Egypt mindset stuck in old colonial mentality & West rules based order, Egypt should stop. Egypt Doubles Down on Nile Diplomacy To Counter Ethiopia, Raises Alarm Over GERD https://t.co/irm78YZRq8

    1910212.3K viewsView on X
  • Jul 18, 20263.6x their median

    On opposition to my own government, as a matter of principle, I defended Ethiopia from attempted regime change, especially during war from Nov 2020-Nov 2022. I also, vigorously promoted the GERD over many years. Certificate much appreciated. https://t.co/l6OVSbNaMI

    182501.0K viewsView on X
  • Jul 27, 20263.0x their median

    Chinese investments soar to $34B  Semafor: Chinese infrastructure & energy investment in #Africa nearly tripled in first half of 2026, rising to $33.5 billion—highest half-year total on record—by far the strongest performance of any region under #China Belt & Road Initiative.

    162302.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20262.7x their median

    #Africa continues to face the world’s largest electricity deficit, which is killing their #economies. The latest “Africa Sustainable Development Report”: Access to #electricity increased from ~46% in 2015 to ~53% in 2023, yet nearly 600 million people remain without power.

    143202.3K viewsView on X
  • Jul 3, 20262.4x their median

    From Beijing. China is way ahead of the U.S. in infrastructure. No reason for 2 nations not to collaborate on eliminating hunger and poverty on the world. https://t.co/El8p3bS7Es

    143001.4K 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.

Recurring topics

#china#electricity#ethiopia#us#africa

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 7 interactions against 84K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 6,874 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 1.3K times each, and 0.531% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.58% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 22% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 159 interactions, about 23x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #china, #electricity, #ethiopia.

What is lawrence freeman's engagement rate on X?
lawrence freeman (@lfreemansafrica) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 83,523 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.008%, lawrence freeman sits above the 10th percentile of the 66,258 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 @lfreemansafrica have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @lfreemansafrica post?
Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.83 posts per day across the measured window.

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