Economic Freedom Fighters engagement report
@EFFSouthAfrica - 2.4M followers on X
Measured over 309 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 97 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 309 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% of 3,774 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 6.5K times each, and 1.50% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.273% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 10.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 309 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #voteeff, #victoryordeath, #effinparliament.
Measured over 309 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #voteeff, #victoryordeath, #effinparliament.
Compared with accounts its own size
Economic Freedom Fighters's engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 68% 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 0.004%, Economic Freedom Fighters sits above 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 13:00 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.
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 16, 202619x their median
President @Julius_S_Malema and the First Lady Ms Mantoa Matlala at the birthday celebration of Her Majesty, Queen Manyaku Thulare. We wish the Queen many more to come and thank her for her contributions. https://t.co/hyuggJHN1Z
- Aug 22, 202616x their median
We must never forget. https://t.co/3RbgJhZpPX
- Aug 16, 202610x their median
President @Julius_S_Malema accompanied by the First Lady Ms Mantoa Matlala and the leadership of the EFF, arriving at the birthday celebration of Her Majesty Queen Manyaku Thulare. https://t.co/EOvfmID8iT
- Aug 23, 20269.7x their median
Today in ward 31, Mbombela Municipality, Gutshwa Village.... EFF ward Candidate Fighter Mandla Mhlongo inspected the 1km street paving financed by @GardeeAttorneys #VoteEFF https://t.co/ZSA5NLOCEJ
- Aug 21, 20269.4x their median
The DA has spent years marketing itself to South Africans as the party of clean governance, competent management, and financial discipline. The allegations against Burke however expose a far deeper political issue for the DA. https://t.co/jlc0PuYGU6
- Aug 20, 20268.9x their median
FACE OF WHITE CORRUPTION! The Reserve Bank affidavit alleges that a company founded and chaired by DA Federal Finance Chairperson Mark Burke circumvented exchange-control regulations to externalise approximately R4 billion. https://t.co/p0Mu8W2x0E
- Aug 23, 20268.3x their median
South Africans cannot hold confidence in the DA, to put the interests of ordinary citizens first when entrusted with public PURSE and resources. #VictoryOrDeath #VoteEFF https://t.co/dSmZ2Hh75c
- Aug 28, 20268.3x their median
The EFF Meets IEC Deadline for Councillor Nomination, Ready to Contest All Wards -The EFF can confirm that it has met this critical electoral deadline and has submitted its candidates to contest all wards across the country. The organisation has captured a total of 4,485 candidates with the IEC, representing a strong national footprint across all nine provinces. This includes 1,398 youth candidates between the ages of 18 and 35, and 1,731 candidates being women.
- Aug 23, 20267.8x their median
EFF Head of Presidency, Commissar @vuyanipambo introducing the Commander in Chief at the Amajuba Ground Forces Forum in Newcastle. We want functional street lights in Newcastle, so that people can be safe. #VictoryOrDeath #VoteEFF https://t.co/bk2ErnSoVV
- Aug 17, 20267.7x their median
The EFF’s Statement on the Reserve Bank Investigation Into DA Federal Finance Chairperson Mark Burke -The allegations against Burke therefore expose a far deeper political issue for the DA. The conclusion that the EFF therefore reaches is simple: if a senior DA leader can be associated with a business facing serious financial crime allegations in its dealings with clients who entrusted it with their money, South Africans cannot hold confidence in his and his party's political leadership to put the interests of ordinary citizens first when entrusted with public resources.
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 97 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 309 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% of 3,774 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 6.5K times each, and 1.50% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.273% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 10.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 309 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #voteeff, #victoryordeath, #effinparliament.
- What is Economic Freedom Fighters's engagement rate on X?
- Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 309 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,373,986 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, Economic Freedom Fighters sits above 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 @EFFSouthAfrica have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @EFFSouthAfrica post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 10.5 posts per day across the measured window.