Sibu Mabena engagement report
@sibumabena - 93K followers on X
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 19, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 362 interactions against 93K followers, an engagement rate of 0.39%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 75% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 64K times each, and 0.565% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 68.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 37x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sklive2026, #sama32, #scorpionkingslive.
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 19, 2026. Recurring tags: #sklive2026, #sama32, #scorpionkingslive.
Compared with accounts its own size
Sibu Mabena's engagement rate beats 75% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 0.39%, Sibu Mabena sits above the 50th percentile of the 213,381 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.147% to 0.699%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.699% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.9% |
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 05:00 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% | 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 | 53% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 7% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 53% 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.
- 7% 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 386 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 3, 202637x their median
Honestly, would you pick your dad again in the next life?
- Sep 2, 202636x their median
𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗘 🤑 @Masandawana star Khuliso Mudau has partnered with bubblegum brand, Chappies 👏👏👏. #UNPLAYABLE https://t.co/sNbIih8CkR
- Jul 23, 202627x their median
This needs to Trend 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️‼️ https://t.co/NyHC8Sewma
- Jul 2, 202627x 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 😂😂😂
- Sep 18, 202618x their median
My friends dad says we are going to wake up one day and have amaphara as ministers because we are too busy to attend to politics 🥺 we don’t belong to branches, we are not concerned with being influential in the various structures yet we have the audacity to complain that we have unqualified and uneducated ministers. It’s because they concerned themselves with local politics and thina with our degrees and big English we’re just chasing money. “You’ll drive your Ferraris on broken roads and have to buy new tyres every month” I’m upset that he’s so correct. The most organized political party in this country is a movement of people who make the time…qualified or unqualified. They also are a mobilisation machine!!! So, the people at the conference will vote for the options they have.. whether they are bribed to or not… Oksalayo… the options they have are then what the country gets when they win! 😭😩😣 It’s our fault we are where we are today. We are not being the change we want to see… whichever party you believe is better than the other, if you want change, get involved. Also… remember to vote on 4 November 😭🙏🏼
- Sep 7, 202610x their median
DJ Maphorisa credits Cassper Nyovest for inspiring them to take Scorpion Kings Live to the iconic FNB Stadium. https://t.co/b0lS2EVhwB
- Sep 19, 20265.9x their median
Time stamp: 15:09 Location: Soccer City Kabelo Motha has arrived early and you haven’t???? What is your reason wena holder of a valid @ScorpionKingsLV ticket 🥹❤️😍🤩 #SKLive2026 https://t.co/6SUsqMcWxt
- Jul 9, 20265.7x 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, 20264.7x their median
Which Module Made You feel like you are a slow learner?😭
- Jul 23, 20264.4x their median
Ndebele initiates homecoming! Abuyile amasokana amaNdebele akwaNdzundza! 🇦🇲 #thepopishow https://t.co/lQd5vtbk7F
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 362 interactions against 93K followers, an engagement rate of 0.39%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 75% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 64K times each, and 0.565% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 68.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 37x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sklive2026, #sama32, #scorpionkingslive.
- What is Sibu Mabena's engagement rate on X?
- Sibu Mabena (@sibumabena) has an engagement rate of 0.39%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 93,254 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.39%, Sibu Mabena sits above the 50th percentile of the 213,381 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 75% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @sibumabena post?
- Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.43 posts per day across the measured window.