Nile Post engagement report
@nilepostnews - 643K followers on X
Measured over 93 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 17 interactions against 643K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 93 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 20,444 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 4.2K times each, and 0.406% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.652% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 93 posts sampled, 49% carry an image or video and 54% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 85x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #nilepostnews, #tooromourns, #nbspeopleandpower.
Measured over 93 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026. Recurring tags: #nilepostnews, #tooromourns, #nbspeopleandpower.
Compared with accounts its own size
Nile Post's engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 27% 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 0.003%, Nile Post sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,798 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 11:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 49% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 54% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 49% 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.
- 54% 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 163 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 12, 202685x their median
When the issue of the new King of the Batooro is solved, we shall be happy to work with the King as we did with His Highness Oyo. - H.E @KagutaMuseveni #NilePostNews #TooroMourns https://t.co/9XlMJIOZg7
- Sep 12, 202665x their median
I appeal to the Batooro to use peaceful and legal means to resolve the Kingdom succession matter and seek maximum unity rather than division. - H.E @KagutaMuseveni #NilePostNews #TooroMourns https://t.co/jI02jPFlgF
- Sep 12, 202647x their median
As we mourn His Highness Oyo, I must call on Ugandans to launch an all-out war against cancer and all the other preventable diseases. 80% of all diseases are preventable including Cancer. - H.E. @KagutaMuseveni #NilePostNews #TooroMourns https://t.co/efBPctvtxg
- Sep 12, 202633x their median
Rt. Hon. @Thomas_Tayebwa delivers H. E. @KagutaMuseveni's message: When the issue of the new King of the Batooro is solved, we shall be happy to work with the King as we did with His Highness Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV. #NilePostNews #TooroMourns https://t.co/fPJlcbSZvK
- Aug 25, 202631x their median
Hon. Mwine Mpaka says it was discovered that CCCC, the contractor for the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway, handed over hardware (computers) and software upon completion, but the equipment and software can no longer be traced. #PlenaryUg #NilePostNews #NBSUpdates https://t.co/wm3V4olLh0
- Sep 12, 202629x their median
The body of the late Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV entering Karambi Royal Tombs for his burial. #NilePostNews #TooroMourns https://t.co/8vi0oPFWWs
- Sep 2, 202624x their median
The return of the late Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV’s body to Uganda has been postponed from Thursday to Friday. @NabimanyaJuliu #NBSMorningBreeze #NilePostNews https://t.co/X4t00rD4dU
- Sep 12, 202622x their median
Queen Mother Best Kemigisha appreciates CDF General @mkainerugaba for all he has done in the process of Omukama Oyo’s final send off. Keep watching for FREE via https://t.co/atEP0LyjXy #NilePostNews #TooroMourns https://t.co/93pugEGmGM
- Sep 12, 202621x their median
Amid heated debate over plans to redevelop City Square's two acres into a solar-powered hotel and shopping mall complex, questions linger over why this land matters to Kampala and how it has survived since colonial times. 🎥 NBS TV #NBSLiveAt9 #NilePostNews https://t.co/xzd1F5yzcw
- Sep 12, 202621x their median
The body of the late Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV is being taken to the Karambi Royal Tombs, with the procession passing by Karuzika Royal Palace. @HakiimsWampamba #NBSUpdates #TooroMourns https://t.co/EBvUI2VoWs
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 17 interactions against 643K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 93 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 20,444 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 4.2K times each, and 0.406% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.652% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 93 posts sampled, 49% carry an image or video and 54% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 85x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #nilepostnews, #tooromourns, #nbspeopleandpower.
- What is Nile Post's engagement rate on X?
- Nile Post (@nilepostnews) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 93 original posts from the last 30 days against 642,701 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, Nile Post sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 @nilepostnews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @nilepostnews post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.2 posts per day across the measured window.