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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.004%
of 2.4M followers
Per impression
1.50%
6.5K views on a typical post
Reach
0.27%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
97
interactions (median)
Saved
0.015%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
10.5/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Wednesday

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%.

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p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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.

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: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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

    1.6K254311373K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 202616x their median

    We must never forget. https://t.co/3RbgJhZpPX

    1.1K39092843K viewsView on X
  • 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

    8131507141K viewsView on X
  • 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

    7491875257K viewsView on X
  • 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

    573282481128K viewsView on X
  • 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

    51729445819K viewsView on X
  • 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

    51725726234K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    5652198926K viewsView on X
  • 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

    6431082132K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    48024622021K 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

#voteeff#victoryordeath#effinparliament#effpodcast#ichooseeff

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.

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