NTV Kenya engagement report
@ntvkenya - 5.4M followers on X
Measured over 258 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 5.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 258 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 329 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 0.096% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.078% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 258 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video and 54% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.5K interactions, about 1121x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ntvtonight, #ntvmashinani, #ntvweekendedition.
Measured over 258 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 22, 2026. Recurring tags: #ntvtonight, #ntvmashinani, #ntvweekendedition.
Compared with accounts its own size
NTV Kenya's engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (329 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 8% 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%, NTV Kenya sits below the 10th percentile of the 9,573 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.006%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.006% |
| 50th percentile | 0.045% |
| 75th percentile | 0.318% |
| 90th percentile | 2.70% |
| 99th percentile | 370.4% |
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 19:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | +10% | 4.7K |
| 01:00 UTC | +7% | 4.6K |
| 02:00 UTC | +4% | 4.7K |
| 03:00 UTC | +4% | 4.6K |
| 04:00 UTC | +5% | 4.2K |
| 05:00 UTC | -2% | 4.2K |
| 06:00 UTC | -10% | 4.2K |
| 07:00 UTC | -3% | 4.7K |
| 08:00 UTC | -5% | 5.5K |
| 09:00 UTC | +7% | 6.1K |
| 10:00 UTC | +1% | 7.0K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 7.6K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 8.7K |
| 13:00 UTC | -1% | 10K |
| 14:00 UTC | -5% | 11K |
| 15:00 UTC | -6% | 12K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 12K |
| 17:00 UTC | -4% | 11K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 9.5K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 8.7K |
| 20:00 UTC | -2% | 7.7K |
| 21:00 UTC | +5% | 6.6K |
| 22:00 UTC | +3% | 5.7K |
| 23:00 UTC | +7% | 4.7K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +18% | 25K |
| Monday | +10% | 41K |
| Tuesday | -24% | 42K |
| Wednesday | +2% | 14K |
| Thursday | 0% | 16K |
| Friday | 0% | 19K |
| Saturday | +16% | 22K |
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 | 61% of posts | +53% | +46% to +62% | 1.9K |
| Outbound link | 54% of posts | -52% | -54% to -49% | 2.2K |
| Typical length | - | -8% | -10% to -6% | 3.0K |
- 61% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 53% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 54% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 52% 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 164 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 8% 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 18, 20261121x their median
Ex-CJ Maraga gives President Ruto 7-day ultimatum to publish report of task force on police reforms submitted to him in 2023, failure to which he'll release it himself https://t.co/HkfMgF4GOZ
- Aug 18, 2026319x their median
Kericho Governor Erick Mutai: I want to tell my Deputy Fred Kirui in his presence here: since it's public knowledge that he was behind the two failed attempts to have me impeached, our political relationship has come to an end. https://t.co/orU3VoXtEd
- Aug 18, 2026171x their median
Lamu has never had an ICU since independence; now it has six ICU beds courtesy of Sha ~ Lamu Deputy Governor Dr Mbarak. #KenyaHealthSummit https://t.co/ANiP2I6b2k
- Aug 18, 2026138x their median
One month later, we can reveal that four people died in Ol Kalou during the campaign period, all the way to the by-election. Witness accounts, exclusive photographs, the recordings of a dying man's last moments, and physical evidence. #OlKalouBloodTrail: https://t.co/lZkvh16OIN @NginaKirori
- Aug 18, 2026120x their median
Orengo: President Ruto is trying to prepare us for the postponement of an election. That is not going to be possible. https://t.co/F7JJPKXCip
- Aug 18, 2026114x their median
On July 16, 2026, Mary Wanjiku made a call to her husband that would be their last. "Nilipomkuta alinihug akaniambia aki Shiro wamenichapa kama mbwa..." #OlKalouBloodTrail: https://t.co/NFBRvq8jrl @NginaKirori https://t.co/4TCMJfxIWH
- Aug 17, 202688x their median
Homa Bay residents condemn violence witnessed during Linda Mwananchi rally on Sunday https://t.co/Xbiqvm3pnM
- Aug 18, 202663x their median
Gang raids Kitengela police estate in shock daylight attack, leaves trail of cash "The robbers made away with wads of cash packed in cartons... At the main gate, they reportedly threw banknotes at onlookers and guards to distract them..." https://t.co/MCFEyh9vfj https://t.co/sMUz2Q68D1
- Aug 17, 202651x their median
Aftermath: Torched cars a day after goons targeted Sifuna-led Linda Mwananchi rally https://t.co/D2WJXs6dJs
- Aug 19, 202643x their median
Gang raids former police boss' house in Kitengela, leaves trail of cash "The robbers left a trail of money. Sh1,000 notes were strewn along the Avenue pathway.. At the main gate, they reportedly threw banknotes at onlookers and guards to distract them..." https://t.co/XfqGKMFBJ1
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 4 interactions against 5.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 258 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 329 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 0.096% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.078% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 258 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video and 54% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.5K interactions, about 1121x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ntvtonight, #ntvmashinani, #ntvweekendedition.
- What is NTV Kenya's engagement rate on X?
- NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 258 original posts from the last 30 days against 5,359,587 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, NTV Kenya sits below the 10th percentile of the 9,573 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 @ntvkenya have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (329 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 @ntvkenya post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 8.67 posts per day across the measured window.