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DStv engagement report

@DStv - 606K followers on X

Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 606K followers
Per impression
0.12%
5.0K views on a typical post
Reach
0.83%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
6
interactions (median)
Saved
0.02%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.33/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 606K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% of 3,774 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 5.0K times each, and 0.12% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.825% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 112 interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #criticalbutstablemzansi, #dstvcatchup, #homecomingmzansis2.

Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #criticalbutstablemzansi, #dstvcatchup, #homecomingmzansis2.

Compared with accounts its own size

DStv's engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 10% 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%, DStv sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,521 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,166 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 14:00 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.

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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%50K
01:00 UTC-2%51K
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%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
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%100K
16:00 UTC-3%97K
17:00 UTC-2%90K
18:00 UTC-1%84K
19:00 UTC-2%79K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%57K
23:00 UTC-2%51K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 18, 202619x their median

    Things are getting out of control now. The love, the trust, the respect... what happened to it all? 😭 #InimbaMzansi https://t.co/Xp23cPtN7K

    95112412K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20263.8x their median

    Isthembu? Would not recommend!🫒 Watch Episode 5 of #Mnakwethu on #DStvCatchUp. https://t.co/fH5Z6cidRC

    1841010K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20262.7x their median

    Tomorrow, the Premier League takes over πŸ•Ί#SSFootballOnDStv https://t.co/UakXWLhJ2U

    150104.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20262.7x their median

    Mara, if we're being honest, uLaurinda needs a career in comedy πŸ˜‚πŸ˜­ #MarriedAtFirstSightMzansi https://t.co/lZIyuSV6hi

    132109.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20262.7x their median

    Lawrence came prepared with premium rizz game! 🎈πŸ”₯ #CriticalButStableMzansi https://t.co/dAw86OoxrL

    133007.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20262.5x their median

    The Premier League is almost back! πŸ”₯πŸ† Drop your champion prediction below πŸ‘‡ #SSFootballOnDStv https://t.co/tLSy0U3zzd

    122104.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20262.0x their median

    One side is in tears; the other is giving the timeline plenty to talk about πŸ˜­πŸ‘€ #MarriedAtFirstSightMzansi https://t.co/XL07TTaitk

    921011K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20262.0x their median

    Billions at stake. Communities divided. In rural KZN, speaking out against mining could come at a cost. Watch @carteblanchetv101 tonight on @mnet. #CarteBlanche https://t.co/mPK8CsF1vf

    45215.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20261.8x their median

    Oh, Zethu 😭 ...you really thought Thumeka would let this slide? #InimbaMzansi https://t.co/iSqC7RQeZe

    101004.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20261.7x their median

    LOL, ayaxabana amadoda. Uphelile um'buso 😝 #HomecomingMzansiS2 https://t.co/M24YAYmTsI

    81105.0K 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.

Recurring topics

#criticalbutstablemzansi#dstvcatchup#homecomingmzansis2#howwerugby#marriedatfirstsightmzansi

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 6 interactions against 606K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% of 3,774 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 5.0K times each, and 0.12% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.825% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 112 interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #criticalbutstablemzansi, #dstvcatchup, #homecomingmzansis2.

What is DStv's engagement rate on X?
DStv (@DStv) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 606,482 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, DStv sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @DStv have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @DStv post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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