Sibu Mabena engagement report
@sibumabena - 93K followers on X
Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 208 interactions against 93K followers, an engagement rate of 0.224%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 66% of 3,917 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 16K times each, and 1.26% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 17.7% 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 57% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 14K interactions, about 65x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sama32, #localgovelections2026, #powerlunch.
Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #sama32, #localgovelections2026, #powerlunch.
Compared with accounts its own size
Sibu Mabena's engagement rate beats 66% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 52% 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 0.224%, Sibu Mabena sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 155.6% |
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 10:00 UTC, and Sunday 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 3, 202665x their median
Honestly, would you pick your dad again in the next life?
- Jul 23, 202648x their median
This needs to Trend 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️‼️ https://t.co/NyHC8Sewma
- Jul 2, 202647x their median
My nephew is in GP for holidays and begged his gran to take him to the airport for Bafana. He's wanted to meet Themba Zwane for so long and today he met him, took a pic & Mshishi signed his shirt & ball. He says "Mamani I'm so happy, my life is complete now" bathong 😂😂😂
- Jul 9, 20269.9x their median
BRANDS: Bontle Modiselle Makes Bold Career Move Bontle Moloi, nee Modiselle, has ended her management deal with Stay Low and transitioned to a new representation team. In a move said to be a collaborative handover between Stay Low and her new home, Bontle will now be signed under Golden Thread African Agency (GTAA). GTAA, founded by Sibu Mabena, is a talent management and creative agency which specialises in talent management, commercial representation, brand partnerships and strategic creative consulting. The handover, which started few months ago, saw both companies deliver campaigns and opportunities for Bontle including the Adidas Bafana Bafana FIFA World Cup campaign, Vanish, Maybelline, and her attendance at the international premiere of the Michael biopic in Berlin and its South African premiere. #KgopoloReports
- Jul 16, 20268.1x their median
Which Module Made You feel like you are a slow learner?😭
- Jul 23, 20267.7x their median
Ndebele initiates homecoming! Abuyile amasokana amaNdebele akwaNdzundza! 🇦🇲 #thepopishow https://t.co/lQd5vtbk7F
- Jul 5, 20266.1x their median
In 2023 - Jessica Nkosi said Out of This World 🌍 In 2024 - Jessica Nkosi said Ride the Wave 🌊 In 2025 - Jessica Nkosi said Marvels of Mzansi 🌷 In 2026 - Jessica Nkosi said Country Allure 🐎 @JessicaNkosi x https://t.co/Cj9MlYCIZm It’s been fun @HWBDurbanJuly 🌟 #DurbanJuly2026 #HWBDbnJuly
- Jun 29, 20264.5x their median
From Pitori 🇿🇦 to Paris 🇫🇷 with African Luxury. GALXBOY – THAT'S CULTURE. https://t.co/ogpOT3mhgD https://t.co/IpnlmAnkvx
- Jun 30, 20263.9x their median
#JunePhotoDump 1. Mom’s tombstone is done ❤️ 2. Judged the Mark Awards 🇿🇦 3. Scorpion Kings Live meetings at the largest stadium in Africa 🇿🇦 4. Inside the Jury Room at Cannes Lions 2026 🇫🇷 https://t.co/QLEZIZWp0V
- Jul 9, 20263.7x their median
28 years ago, @BontleModiselle and I met at Johannesburg Girls Primary School. Years later, we’d both find our way into the hip hop dance scene of the late 2000s and spend a lot of time in the same rooms of Strictly Hip Hop and Masters of Rhythm, working on shows like the MAMAS and SAFTAS together, and just finding ourselves around the same kind of madness that shaped so many of us. Over the years, we’ve worked together on campaigns, made some money and, most importantly, remained true to a sisterhood that has now lasted nearly three decades. Over the past few months, GTAA has had the privilege of working alongside @StayLowOfficial as part of Bontle’s management handover and, in that time, we’ve already had the joy of building some beautiful work around her across adidas, Maybelline, Vanish and more. Now it’s official. 🤍 I’m so proud to welcome Bontle Moloi to the GTAA family. She’s always moved culture. Now, we move together ✨
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 208 interactions against 93K followers, an engagement rate of 0.224%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 66% of 3,917 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 16K times each, and 1.26% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 17.7% 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 57% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 14K interactions, about 65x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sama32, #localgovelections2026, #powerlunch.
- What is Sibu Mabena's engagement rate on X?
- Sibu Mabena (@sibumabena) has an engagement rate of 0.224%, based on the median interactions across 17 original posts from the last 30 days against 92,916 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.224%, Sibu Mabena sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,856 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 @sibumabena have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 66% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @sibumabena post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.83 posts per day across the measured window.