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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 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 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.
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 | 37% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 98% 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.