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The Sun Nigeria engagement report

@thesunnigeria - 103K followers on X

Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 103K followers
Per impression
0.203%
492 views on a typical post
Reach
0.48%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 7% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 103K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% 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 492 times each, and 0.203% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.479% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 37% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17 interactions, about 17x its own typical post.

Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

The Sun Nigeria's engagement rate beats 3% 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 11% 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 0.001%, The Sun Nigeria sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 08:00 UTC, and Thursday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video37% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link98% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 37% 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.
  • 98% 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 205 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 15, 202617x their median

    The front page of The Sun, October 15, 2026. Read the biggest headlines and exclusive stories in today's edition of Daily Sun. For more incisive reports, visit https://t.co/3gpK5n66mf or get a copy from your vendor. https://t.co/HTKK1tRJ6C

    12320705 viewsView on X
  • Oct 14, 20266.0x their median

    Atiku Abubakar, ADC presidential candidate, has criticised the All Progressives Congress (APC) for revising its presidential campaign council, calling it a ‘crowded confession of Tinubu’s fear’. https://t.co/U4iipeNDkU

    0060582 viewsView on X
  • Oct 14, 20265.0x their median

    The ruling APC has dismissed reports of a rift between its governors and Minister Wike over his inclusion in President Tinubu’s 2027 re-election campaign council. https://t.co/nayeygYxwW https://t.co/53WUxCWeKX

    3020673 viewsView on X
  • Oct 15, 20263.0x their median

    Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma announced his intention to contest a Senate seat in the 2027 general election. https://t.co/l6uy6O1LHG https://t.co/MkbJ5tTlCZ

    0030414 viewsView on X
  • Oct 15, 20263.0x their median

    Real Madrid staged a remarkable comeback, scoring three goals in the final eight minutes to defeat Roma 4-3 in the UEFA Champions League. https://t.co/eCDvvVglMX

    2010538 viewsView on X
  • Oct 15, 20263.0x their median

    Osun State Police arrested six suspected cultists in Osogbo during a raid on criminal hideouts. The suspects, apprehended on October 8, 2026, are facing charges in court. https://t.co/0MMiZX1GCp https://t.co/twZDPRnDZL

    2010512 viewsView on X
  • Oct 14, 20263.0x their median

    Hollywood actor John Boyega has announced the arrival of his baby boy, months after revealing that he secretly married his wife nearly two years ago. https://t.co/kJ5LNFZNKN https://t.co/kpN3UBFp3g

    2100647 viewsView on X
  • Oct 15, 20262.0x their median

    Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State announced APGA’s support for President Tinubu’s re-election campaign, highlighting a historic political alignment. https://t.co/48IUGYV6wo

    1010426 viewsView on X
  • Oct 15, 20262.0x their median

    The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has pledged to mobilise voters in Rivers State and the FCT to support President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027. https://t.co/DScGFUGwMB https://t.co/5HT2Lal9Qm

    1100401 viewsView on X
  • Oct 15, 20262.0x their median

    APC Presidential Campaign Council DG Abdulaziz Yari stated that President Tinubu’s achievements in infrastructure and improving the lives of ordinary Nigerians will be the focus of the 2027 re-election campaign. https://t.co/ZiNQ64rRa3

    2000476 viewsView on X

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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 103K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% 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 492 times each, and 0.203% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.479% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 37% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17 interactions, about 17x its own typical post.

What is The Sun Nigeria's engagement rate on X?
The Sun Nigeria (@thesunnigeria) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 60 original posts from the last 30 days against 102,756 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, The Sun Nigeria sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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 @thesunnigeria have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 3% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @thesunnigeria post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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