Christo πΏπ¦πΏπ¦πΏπ¦ engagement report
@ChristoThurston - 613K followers on X
Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 526 interactions against 613K followers, an engagement rate of 0.086%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 3,758 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 22K times each, and 2.38% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.61% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 45% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 32x its own typical post.
Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tag: #newzroom405.
Compared with accounts its own size
Christo πΏπ¦πΏπ¦πΏπ¦'s engagement rate beats 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 75% 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 0.086%, Christo πΏπ¦πΏπ¦πΏπ¦ sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.433%.
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 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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
- Sep 27, 201932x their median
Batho ba rata ditaba hle πππΎπ https://t.co/yHRlFbm1ZE
- Jul 20, 202625x their median
South Africa will face an exceptionally dry and hot summer from October 2026 to March 2027. Temperature will hover around 35 to 45 degrees in most parts of the country, with temperatures close to 50 degrees in Limpopo and North West. Be prepared!
- Jul 4, 202614x their median
Every police station in this country must undergo a forensic audit! The rot is too deep and it literally costs lives!
- Jul 13, 202610.0x their median
A new illness has been discovered in South Africa: 'Acute Madlangitis' A mysterious condition that strikes just before a commission appearance. Symptoms include sudden chest pains, dizziness, and an urgent need for a hospital bed.
- Jun 27, 20267.1x their median
Life is too short not to support Bafana Bafana and Kaizer Chiefs! https://t.co/Hw2rDtZijp
- Jan 2, 20266.3x their median
We need more CCTV in our public spaces. Paired with the power of social media, itβs a game-changer for public safety. Criminals will be identified, exposed, and dealt with, decisively! Happy 2026 Bazalwane!
- Jul 28, 20265.9x their median
South Africa introduced a sugar tax in 2018. Businesses did not merely absorb the costs. They used less sugar and imported more artificial sweeteners. The sugar tax resulted in a significant drop in sugar production in SA (and thousands of jobs lost).
- Jul 30, 20265.2x their median
I am not looking for trouble. I am just here to greet. Good morning dearest. Good morning gorgeous. https://t.co/KtkfkpOP7s
- Oct 9, 20254.1x their median
Corruption is not just any crime. It is a crime against humanity, high treason and murder. When public money is stolen by the corrupt, ordinary people die from hunger, lack of medical care, poor service delivery etc.
- Aug 6, 20263.7x their median
[BREAKING NEWS] Eskom contractor Michael Lomas gets suspended sentence after pleading guilty to pocketing R745 million and channeling bribes. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/M6fJx1zssJ
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
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 526 interactions against 613K followers, an engagement rate of 0.086%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 3,758 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 22K times each, and 2.38% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.61% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 45% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 32x its own typical post.
- What is Christo πΏπ¦πΏπ¦πΏπ¦'s engagement rate on X?
- Christo πΏπ¦πΏπ¦πΏπ¦ (@ChristoThurston) has an engagement rate of 0.086%, based on the median interactions across 11 original posts from the last 30 days against 612,845 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.086%, Christo πΏπ¦πΏπ¦πΏπ¦ sits above the 50th 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 @ChristoThurston have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @ChristoThurston post?
- Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.