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Francis Gaitho engagement report

@FGaitho237 - 274K followers on X

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.013%
of 274K followers
Per impression
0.736%
5.0K views on a typical post
Reach
1.81%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
36
interactions (median)
Saved
0.05%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.4/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
05:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 36 interactions against 274K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 21,624 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 5.0K times each, and 0.736% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.81% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.9K interactions, about 136x its own typical post.

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Francis Gaitho's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 34% 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 0.013%, Francis Gaitho sits above the 10th percentile of the 218,597 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.149%
p750.705%
p902.63%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 218,597 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 21,723 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.149%
75th percentile0.705%
90th percentile2.63%
99th percentile82.5%

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 Monday 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: 05:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 05:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video88% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link9% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 88% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 9% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 1514 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Sep 13, 2026136x their median

    Mambo gani jamenii💀😭 https://t.co/utGYpApxP4

    4.2K49414284183K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 2026115x their median

    We are getting information that the person who recorded this video has been arrested. More Information to follow https://t.co/jPjGA4kKvE

    3.0K9896622159K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 202641x their median

    Frame 1: How hired crowds are imported in Mount Kenya to Ruto’s events. Frame 2: How Nyanza livestock (Ng’ombe za Baba) are ferried to Ruto’s events. https://t.co/hkIVrPMFcw

    1.1K31266939K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 202640x their median

    In other countries, a baby’s first words are either dada or mama. In this British colonial kakistocratic shit-hole country/failed state called Kenya, a baby’s first word is “One-Term”. https://t.co/0JRseMfmkl

    1.1K26031528K viewsView on X
  • Oct 23, 202638x their median

    Kwani tuko kwa makwapa ya gaitho https://t.co/TWprgCFXCb

    1.1K145809127K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 202634x their median

    Gaitho should recreate this on August 10, 2027, after we send Ruto to Sugoi. https://t.co/JMlT3gMx6d

    83521015527464K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202633x their median

    For anyone still asking how corrupt PCEA clergy and elders “ate” KSh 700 million, a content creator has already done the site visit. The camera at Milele Beach Hotel does not show a miracle in progress. It shows a white elephant that the pews were talked into financing. That is the method. Wrap a commercial failure in vestments. Call the collection “rescue.” Leave the congregation holding a loan they never priced, never approved, and will never audit. The building exists. The explanation does not. Children of aging churchgoers should treat this as a household file, not a sermon. If a parent is still writing cheques into phantom church projects, say the quiet part clearly: that money is leaving the family balance sheet. They should not top up the plate and then expect the same children to underwrite hospital bills with their savings. Make the threat explicit before the next harambee. A church that cannot explain a hotel debt does not get to inherit your parents’ last shilling and then hand you the medical invoice. Stay awake around the old loyalty. Faith is not a blank withdrawal form.

    87028642672K viewsView on X
  • Oct 24, 202628x their median

    Reject the Entire Elections Amendment Bill Before It Becomes Another Barrier to the Ballot Parliament’s latest attempt to amend the Elections Act should be rejected in full, not reduced to a quarrel over whether results will still be livestreamed. The pattern is already familiar. In the run-up to the 2022 elections, functional alcoholic and chain smoking piece of shit Uhuru Kenyatta and a compliant legislature pushed through a series of changes to the Elections Act and the Political Parties Act. These included university degree requirements for candidates seeking parliamentary and county assembly seats, tighter signature thresholds and documentation rules for independent candidates, and more elaborate nomination procedures for political parties. The stated purpose was order and quality. The practical effect was to raise the cost and complexity of standing for office. Several of those provisions did not survive judicial scrutiny. In April 2022 the High Court, in consolidated petitions, declared the degree requirement in Section 22(1)(b)(i) of the Elections Act unconstitutional for violating Articles 24, 27, 38 and 56 of the Constitution and for lack of adequate public participation. Similar challenges had already struck down the degree rule for MCAs. Courts also examined aspects of the independent-candidate signature and identification rules. Yet by the time the rulings arrived, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission had already applied the new procedures during nomination. Candidates who could not meet the paperwork, the signatures or the academic certificates in time were simply not cleared. The damage was done before the courts could intervene. The IEBC, far from acting as a neutral referee, implemented the amended rules with the same diligence it later applied to other contested aspects of the electoral process. The current Elections (Amendment) Bill follows the same script. Debate has focused on Clause 22 and Section 39, which govern how results are determined, transmitted and declared, including the existing obligation on the IEBC to provide a mechanism for livestreaming. Parliament passed the Bill with amendments on 22 October 2026. Whether the livestreaming language ultimately stays or goes is secondary. The larger problem is the readiness of the legislature to reopen the electoral framework months before a general election, creating new procedural hurdles that the IEBC can enforce immediately while any court challenge crawls through the system for years. Kenyans do not have the luxury of waiting three years for another round of constitutional petitions to declare the latest changes void. The previous cycle showed that once the rules are on the books and the commission begins applying them, prospective candidates are locked out long before any judgment is delivered. Even during the height of the Moi dictatorship, the basic right to present oneself as a candidate and the ability of the media to report results were not systematically closed by statutory barriers of this kind. Elections, however imperfect, were still contested at the ballot. The democratic will of the people cannot be filtered through ever-changing nomination checklists, signature quotas and transmission rules designed by the same political class that benefits from a narrowed field. The entire amendment Bill should therefore be shelved. Anyone who wishes to win office must do so at the ballot, not by raising the legal and administrative cost of entry for everyone else. That is why the call for a shutdown and march to Parliament and the IEBC on Monday, 26 October, is not an abstract demand. It is a recognition that the only reliable way to stop another round of barriers is to reject the Bill before it becomes law, not after the courts have spent years cleaning up the consequences.

    70128218210K viewsView on X
  • Oct 21, 202626x their median

    Two Bank Executives Are Dead. The Predatory Model That Employs Them Is Still Standing Eva Ngigi Sarwari, managing director of Finserve Africa and Equity Group’s director of payments and international banking, has died aged 45 while on a business trip to China, according to a statement from her colleagues. Her death cuts short a career that spanned over two decades in banking and payments, from introducing customers to electronic banking at Co-operative Bank of Kenya to leading Visa’s business across three East African markets. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Eva Ngigi Sarwari,” her colleagues said in the statement on Tuesday. They described the news as a “sudden and profound shock” and said they would make further updates as details became available. The statement did not disclose the cause or date of her death. This comes in the wake of the passing of KCB’s Rosemary Chemutai Kimwatu two months ago through suicide. Our predatory banks, which overwork and underpay their staff, seem determined to extract every last measure of labour from the people they employ for the sake of an extra dollar for their shareholders. The construct of success as perpetuated by standards glamorized by motivational speakers and authors, which hinged on solipsism for women, a ruthless focus on self and service to money, has re-introduced modern-day slavery, and work-life balance has been suspended for manufactured optics of career elevation. These banks have optimized their profit lines so thoroughly that all other perks that once came with employment, such as company houses, staff vans, internal catering and club memberships, were terminated under the guise of rationalization and cost-cutting, even while the salaries of their CEOs ballooned a hundred-fold. Equity is the worst case-study of banking success. It is a bank built on the destruction of the cooperative movement, which exploited Mwai Kibaki’s low interest rates regimes to hawk cheap loans, lure farmers into debt and then cash in after Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime moved to looting through odious debt and the bank’s focus shifted to lending to the government, pursuing ruthless debt recovery mechanisms, turning CEO James Mwangi and Chairman Peter Munga into the largest property and land owners in the country simply from grabbing collateral under the guise of recovering debt. The constellation is toxic. Think of Thika Greens Golf and Country Club. Mwai Kibaki duped shareholders of Othaya Farmers District Cooperative Union to sell the 2,000-acre Makindi/Mihuti farm under the guise of “debt,” because his son and then Cooperatives Development Assistant Minister Peter Kenneth were shareholders. It was then converted from productive use of growing coffee and earning the country foreign exchange to a real estate project of which James Mwangi is a large owner of the land and properties. James Mwangi has been the CEO for over 30 years, which is illegal for any publicly-listed company. The bank’s name also appears in the entities claiming Kenya owes them money which they loaned to treasury for fictitious or non-existent projects, money which we shall not repay. The two deaths sit inside the same arrangement. One woman died on a business trip whose purpose was to keep the payments and international banking machinery running. The other died by suicide after years inside a risk and data-protection role at another major bank, with family accounts citing marital strain and the weight of debts. In both cases the public statement or the autopsy supplies a date and a location. It does not supply a ledger of the hours, the targets, the eliminated staff benefits or the pressure that remains after the condolences have been issued. The model that treats staff as instruments for shareholder returns, that cut the older forms of support while CEO pay rose, continues to operate. The obituaries do not interrupt it.

    6931705413239K viewsView on X
  • Oct 22, 202625x their median

    Ciku Muiruri assaulted and almost raped by goons eyeing family land in Thika Former media personality Ciku Muiruri was assaulted and almost raped when more than two hundred armed goons raided her family home on a coffee farm in Thika in the early hours of 12 October 2026, acting on an eviction order issued by the Business Premises Rent Tribunal against a person, who is not even a tenant and land that is not business premises. The raid took place at 3am. The men seized phones from family members so that no one could call for help, destroyed furniture and electronics, and assaulted residents, including under-age children. The eighty-year-old matriarch of the household and her children have since been forced to live in a tent on the farm while the same group remains on the land, its leader armed with pistols, under the continued presence of police officers who had been served with a stay order. Ciku Muiruri has said she was attacked by AbdiRashid Abdul Shariff, Lucas Kaguamba, owner of Ngoigwa ThikaView apartments, all working under Floriculture Ltd. She also pointed fingers at the OCPD and DCIO of Thika, who have ignored court orders for one and a half weeks, and has noted that the man who attacked her is still roaming the property freely with no arrests made. The first reference was filed on 9 April 2026. By 16 April, Hon. Mike Makori of the Business Premises Rent Tribunal had issued eviction orders ex parte. The premises are a coffee farm with a residential house in which Ciku Muiruri occupies a bedroom in her mother’s house. She is a journalist, not a businesswoman, and she conducts no business on the land. A stay was obtained from Hon. Joyce Osodo. A tribunal member, Hon. Gad Kipkirui Chemoiyai, later lifted that stay, again ex parte. After a complaint to the Judiciary Ombudsman, the Chairman of the Tribunal heard the matter and ruled that the premises were not business premises, that Ciku Muiruri was not a tenant of any kind, and that the purported landlord had deceived the tribunal. On 17 September 2026 he dismissed the reference and ordered Floriculture Ltd to pay Kshs. 200,000 in costs. One week later, on 24 September 2026, Floriculture Ltd filed a fresh reference at the same tribunal. On 5 October 2026 Hon. Joyce Osodo issued a second set of eviction orders ex parte, despite the Chairman’s earlier ruling. The night raid followed on 12 October. The order had not been verified. Police assistance had not been obtained. The Thika Security Committee had not sat. After the raid, the Chairman again stayed the eviction orders. The stay was served on the OCPD, DCI, OCS and AP head at Thika, all of whom were present on the ground. Requests were made for the arrest of the men for forcible entry, robbery with violence, assault occasioning grievous harm and malicious destruction of property. The OCPD was asked why the entire family was being removed when the unverified order named only Ciku Muiruri. Shots were fired into the air in the presence of the lawyer serving the stay. Police remain on the ground. The stay orders are in force. Construction continues among the coffee bushes. The phones taken during the raid have not been recovered. Complaints to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations have not produced arrests. The tribunal has not explained how a second ex-parte eviction order was issued against a non-tenant after the first had already been dismissed with costs. The police who received the stay have not explained why the goons who entered the house at 3am remain on the land.

    640214539126K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 36 interactions against 274K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 21,624 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 5.0K times each, and 0.736% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.81% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.9K interactions, about 136x its own typical post.

What is Francis Gaitho's engagement rate on X?
Francis Gaitho (@FGaitho237) has an engagement rate of 0.013%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 273,736 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.013%, Francis Gaitho sits above the 10th percentile of the 218,597 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 @FGaitho237 have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 @FGaitho237 post?
Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.4 posts per day across the measured window.

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