City of Cape Town engagement report
@CityofCT - 438K followers on X
Measured over 53 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 438K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 53 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% 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 1.8K times each, and 0.114% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.4% 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 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 53 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 49% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 794 interactions, about 397x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #onecitytogether, #letsgettowork, #savewaterct.
Measured over 53 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #onecitytogether, #letsgettowork, #savewaterct.
Compared with accounts its own size
City of Cape Town's engagement rate beats 6% 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 9% 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%, City of Cape Town sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.4% |
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 10:00 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% | 54K |
| 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% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 2026397x their median
Need an ID or passport? 🇿🇦 A new appointment-only Home Affairs office is now open at the City of Cape Town’s Civic Centre in the CBD. It’s the first Home Affairs office hosted by a municipality, bringing essential national government services closer to residents. https://t.co/hLsEEYSc8n
- Aug 25, 2026346x their median
The City is preparing to repair the Jafta K Masemola bulk sewer in Khayelitsha at an estimated cost of R7,9 million. About 40 informal structures need to be relocated to give repair teams safe access to three collapsed sections of the sewer. https://t.co/fU0UUoCZwI
- Aug 26, 202681x their median
📞 Emergency Call-Taker Veteran – All Dialled In For 18 years, Laetitia Abels has answered emergency calls at Cape Town’s Public Emergency Communication Centre, helping keep our city safe. Celebrating women who answer the call, serve with courage and help keep Cape Town safe. https://t.co/KFswillv7a
- Aug 28, 202616x their median
Your City in 60!🏙️ Planning a festive getaway? Soetwater and Miller’s Point bookings open 1 Sept! Women’s health: 27 500+ cervical screenings completed. Regional park upgrades are underway. Report incidents quickly via the City App. https://t.co/6SfviFt7OE
- Aug 25, 202611x their median
Need an ID or passport? 🪪🌍 You can now access Home Affairs services at the Civic Centre in Cape Town. The new appointment-only office makes it easier to access essential identity and travel documents in the heart of Cape Town. 🔗 Read more: https://t.co/P4TC39pWTY https://t.co/R8wAyHFhUh
- Aug 26, 20266.0x their median
Mayor @Geordinhl says Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has yet to engage with the City over its request for Metro Police investigative powers to tackle gang, gun and drug crime. The City is seeking an amendment to the SAPS Act Amendment Bill. See: https://t.co/NyWwu17Ecn https://t.co/9Xd5kQAbIV
- Aug 29, 20263.5x their median
Hello Cape Town! 👋 The City’s Social Media Team is online and ready to assist. How can we help you today? https://t.co/lOwMPqN90Y
- Aug 27, 20263.5x their median
Cape Town recorded 90 002 sewer blockages in the 2025/26 financial year — about 2 000 more than the previous year. More than 80% could have been prevented. Residents are encouraged to take responsibility for what they flush down their toilets and drains. https://t.co/YXSawCkFJK
- Aug 27, 20263.5x their median
Hello Cape Town! 👋 The City’s Social Media Team is online and ready to assist. How can we help you today? https://t.co/JcXc7hFMEh
- Aug 25, 20263.0x their median
More than 19,000 dogs and cats have been sterilised through the City’s Mass Animal Sterilisation Project since 2013. This year, Subcouncil 11 is next, with 1,500 pets set to be sterilised from September. See: https://t.co/zV5LpaurAY https://t.co/SNZjXxb6ww
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
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 438K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 53 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% 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 1.8K times each, and 0.114% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.4% 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 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 53 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 49% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 794 interactions, about 397x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #onecitytogether, #letsgettowork, #savewaterct.
- What is City of Cape Town's engagement rate on X?
- City of Cape Town (@CityofCT) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 53 original posts from the last 30 days against 437,867 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, City of Cape Town sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 @CityofCT have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 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 @CityofCT post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.