The Standard Zim engagement report
@thestandardzim - 103K followers on X
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 103K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% 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 1.3K times each, and 0.588% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 217 interactions, about 27x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #the, #thestandard.
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026. Recurring tags: #the, #thestandard.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Standard Zim's engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 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 0.007%, The Standard Zim sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,991 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 | 0.68% |
| 90th percentile | 2.56% |
| 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 12:00 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 97% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% 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.
- 97% 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 261 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
- Oct 4, 202627x their median
UFIC founder Emmanuel Makandiwa says Chivayo’s gifts to prophets were not given in exchange for prophecy, arguing that the late businessman also gave generously to musicians, comedians and other public figures. 📹 : UFIC https://t.co/HlRbSsHlwE
- Oct 12, 202613x their median
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga warned the Mnangagwa loyalists that attempts to manipulate the rules to influence the succession race would not succeed. Read more: https://t.co/dOAZ18lIyl https://t.co/LU64Xzm2t6
- Oct 11, 20266.1x their median
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s dramatic move to block what is suspected to be a clandestine attempt to amend the Zanu PF constitution ahead of the ruling party’s annual conference this week https://t.co/dOAZ18lIyl https://t.co/JF6V0NfRvZ
- Oct 11, 20266.0x their median
Car dealers in Harare are reeling from a sharp loss of business following the untimely death of controversial businessman Wicknell Chivhayo, while others are scrambling to figure out how to recover money for vehicles that were taken, but never paid for. https://t.co/ekJ4Funy7g https://t.co/aeRz5SfRW2
- Oct 10, 20264.0x their median
Just published: front page of the #The Standard, October 11 to 17, 2026 print edition READ MORE https://t.co/GG0kFdq0TW SUBSCRIBE to the Print Edition https://t.co/7mpKRmZNGa https://t.co/wuBrC024wC
- Oct 4, 20263.0x their median
The death of convicted fraudster Wicknell Chivayo in a helicopter crash has created a vacuum in the push to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term of office to 2040, analysts have said. Read more: https://t.co/1WHxWaCdwE https://t.co/9YM9wFv8JK
- Oct 4, 20263.0x their median
President Mnangagwa’s advisor, Tungwarara, has given a glimpse into how a coterie of wealthy businessmen are bankrolling campaigns to keep the 84-year-old ruler in power forever, saying the late Wicknell Chivayo was second-in-command in a group of four. https://t.co/BM5mCWgTdY https://t.co/c53ezNzbYe
- Oct 4, 20262.3x their median
In a move that lays bare the moral collapse of our governing elite, Zanu PF has declared the late self-styled billionaire, Wicknell Chivayo, a provincial hero following his sudden death in a helicopter crash at age 43. Read more: https://t.co/R0wX2oc8nD https://t.co/OM9VVecKPs
- Oct 4, 20261.9x their median
A “sinister” plot to turn the Zimbabwe Republic into a “United Royal Kingdom of Munhumutapa” gathered pace last week after the government received official notification for the establishment of the centuries-old empire. Read more: https://t.co/en9mZXn6p1 https://t.co/iNQoG5iOdp
- Oct 11, 20261.8x their median
ZIMBABWE and other African governments face mounting pressure to confront Russia over the recruitment of their citizens into its military, as Moscow prepares to host the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum Summit on October 28 and 29. Read More https://t.co/01Mo8tP6fX https://t.co/J0VC57Uf3l
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 8 interactions against 103K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% 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 1.3K times each, and 0.588% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 217 interactions, about 27x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #the, #thestandard.
- What is The Standard Zim's engagement rate on X?
- The Standard Zim (@thestandardzim) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 103,319 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, The Standard Zim sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,991 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 @thestandardzim have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 15% 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 @thestandardzim post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.