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ZimLive engagement report

@zimlive - 541K followers on X

Measured over 46 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.033%
of 541K followers
Per impression
0.58%
31K views on a typical post
Reach
5.74%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
178
interactions (median)
Saved
0.062%
19 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.57/day
active 37% of days
Peak time
04:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 178 interactions against 541K followers, an engagement rate of 0.033%. Measured over 46 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 20,444 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 31K times each, and 0.58% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 46 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 7.2x its own typical post.

Measured over 46 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

ZimLive's engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 34% 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 0.033%, ZimLive sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,880 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,880 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 04:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 04:00 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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 video41% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link59% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 41% 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.
  • 59% 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 235 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 7, 20267.2x their median

    A convoy of top-of-the-range vehicles carrying Wicknell and Lucy Chivayo’s families has arrived at Doves Funeral Services in Harare to collect their bodies which will lie in state at their Gletwin home overnight before burial on Thursday 📹 @ZBCNewsonline https://t.co/SwxlRE7Fem

    89913315787274K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20265.8x their median

    The Netherlands is closing its embassy in Harare. A statement by the embassy, just released, says “the decision is part of a broader restructuring of the Netherlands’ diplomatic network.” Sweden has also announced the closure of its embassy in Harare https://t.co/OuPizvLXSI

    7082007851231K viewsView on X
  • Oct 12, 20264.3x their median

    REVEALED: Furious Mudenda forced Mnangagwa to call off Zanu PF politburo meeting ♦️ Zanu PF leader left shocked by scale and ferocity of fight over amendments to party constitution https://t.co/0MyuzPtniz

    584985524281K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 20263.9x their median

    Students graduating at the National University of Science and Technology and parents were told to be seated by 8AM ahead of the arrival of the Chancellor President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Then they waited. Those who wished to leave were not allowed. The president just landed in Bulawayo at 12.40PM

    500629537107K viewsView on X
  • Oct 13, 20263.8x their median

    📹 President Mnangagwa, speaking at the start of a Zanu PF politburo meeting, takes direct aim at his deputy Constantino Chiwenga for not attending a “Presidential Fundraising Ball” last Saturday. “Some of you came, some of you did not come, but you’re members of the politburo.” https://t.co/VTvFIbCOQT

    52294461395K viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 20263.6x their median

    Old Mutual manager jailed for rape is released after High Court quashes conviction ♦️ Discrepancies in trial court record secure him freedom from 15-year jail stretch https://t.co/UeWztPOVal

    453757431187K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20263.4x their median

    #BREAKING Collins Mnangagwa’s mother in law Amina Jassinta Jessub Arab, 47, sister in law Dyonne Tanaka Tafirenyika, 28, (📸) and their relative Noreen Jessub, 52, all denied bail by a Bulawayo magistrate following their arrest on drugs charges. Remanded in custody to September 3 https://t.co/7M8TSH6UiE

    419559139137K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20263.2x their median

    Bulawayo council stalls on Geo Pomona MOU despite Garwe’s ultimatum ♦️ Residents, rights groups reject Geo Pomona directive, demand open tender https://t.co/wMTtog6Amu

    44387271154K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20263.2x their median

    Kelsea Tafirenyika tells court $10 million properties are gifts from Collins Mnangagwa ♦️ Bail hearing to continue on Wednesday as she remains in custody https://t.co/oZbHA1sqmE

    354878538343K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.9x their median

    #BREAKING Lawyers for Kelsea Tafirenyika have written to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa apologising for the “regrettable escalation” around their client’s case, denying any intent to “scandalise” the First Family and blaming “opportunists and detractors” for the controversy https://t.co/e45gstYeBN

    23470109104241K 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 178 interactions against 541K followers, an engagement rate of 0.033%. Measured over 46 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 20,444 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 31K times each, and 0.58% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 46 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 7.2x its own typical post.

What is ZimLive's engagement rate on X?
ZimLive (@zimlive) has an engagement rate of 0.033%, based on the median interactions across 46 original posts from the last 30 days against 540,827 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.033%, ZimLive sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,880 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 @zimlive have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @zimlive post?
Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.57 posts per day across the measured window.

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