Business Day engagement report
@BDliveSA - 423K followers on X
Measured over 46 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 423K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 46 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 3,792 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 2.2K times each, and 0.278% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.512% 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 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 46 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video, 26% are part of a thread and 72% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 221 interactions, about 37x its own typical post.
Measured over 46 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Business Day's engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 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 22% 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%, Business Day sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 06:00 UTC, and Friday 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 27, 202637x their median
WATCH | Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Zuko Godlimpi argues that the inclusion of the DA in government has moderated their stance on critical issues, such as trade relations with China and the green transition. https://t.co/IfcapuQokq
- Aug 29, 20265.2x their median
Sasol is facing a pivotal moment as its Secunda plant, a major contributor to SA’s fuel and chemicals sector, is linked to severe health impacts and high emissions, with 1,000 estimated annual deaths from pollution https://t.co/FjYmDlhTGI
- Aug 27, 20265.2x their median
Sandton's office vacancy rate has dropped sharply since 2022, but that's not where the real investment story is anymore. Experts say the smart money is now chasing a mix of industrial, residential, retail and hospitality assets, especially in these areas. Link in comments. https://t.co/elisS4wUYz
- Aug 28, 20264.8x their median
Tongaat Hulett is carrying about R15bn in liabilities, yet the IDC is choosing to deepen its involvement rather than walk away. The state financier's R2.5bn loan is set to convert into equity, making it a shareholder in the sugar giant's future. Link in comments. https://t.co/bjGUIxxXQL
- Aug 27, 20264.5x their median
Falling office vacancies prompting investors to eye Sandton’s wider property ecosystem. https://t.co/plJrJeb72P
- Aug 28, 20264.2x their median
Canada wants to double its non-US exports within a decade. SA is scrambling to diversify after a 30% US tariff. At a Johannesburg seminar, leaders from both countries argued this shared pressure is creating room for a stronger relationship. Link in comments. https://t.co/lzSTpLJ14F
- Aug 28, 20263.0x their median
It started with a plan to raise VAT from 15% to 15.5%. Now it's a full constitutional fight over who actually holds the power to tax in SA. Sars and Treasury want the ConCourt to overturn a ruling that stripped the finance minister of that power. Link in comments. https://t.co/qeCBc5HH91
- Aug 30, 20262.7x their median
Barnabus Xulu’s law firm JG and Xulu is suing Jacob Zuma’s MK Party for R12.5m in unpaid legal fees after the party allegedly defaulted on a settlement agreement to pay off its debt https://t.co/pKKDSwQapn https://t.co/lLfrN4u7mY
- Aug 27, 20262.7x their median
More than 1.27-million foreign tourists arrived in SA in July, a jump of over 17% from June. Almost 80% came from the Sadc region, with Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho leading the way. Link in comments. https://t.co/xfx9ZzetGm
- Aug 26, 20262.3x their median
Jubilee selects buyer for Zambian waste project https://t.co/HN2PyNAcFl
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 6 interactions against 423K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 46 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 3,792 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 2.2K times each, and 0.278% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.512% 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 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 46 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video, 26% are part of a thread and 72% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 221 interactions, about 37x its own typical post.
- What is Business Day's engagement rate on X?
- Business Day (@BDliveSA) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 46 original posts from the last 30 days against 422,595 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Business Day sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @BDliveSA have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 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 @BDliveSA post?
- Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.