GQ South Africa engagement report
@GQdotcoza - 370K followers on X
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 370K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% of 3,917 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 934 times each, and 0.214% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.252% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 79% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 836 interactions, about 418x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #wemovewithyou, #wesbank, #amextennistown.
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #wemovewithyou, #wesbank, #amextennistown.
Compared with accounts its own size
GQ South Africa's engagement rate beats 3% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 12% 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%, GQ South Africa sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,856 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 155.6% |
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 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 2026418x their median
🚨 NEW PRINT ISSUE 🚨 Our 2nd September cover stars GQ Best Dressed Award winners 17, #ThabangMolaba, #RuveshPillay, @LisaMadibe & @SweetGuluva . Five names redefining what great style means, beyond the clothes. On shelves nationwide & digitally. https://t.co/rvB8UiPDFx
- Aug 29, 202678x their median
Go #behindthescenes of our September cover shoot. Issue available on shelves nationwide now and digitally. https://t.co/ve9S1ZU7fh
- Aug 12, 202663x their median
GQ caught up with @YesJulz to talk about her early career, stepping into motherhood, and what’s next but this time her own terms. Click the link below to read the exclusive Q&A: https://t.co/rCKzJJB2Yh https://t.co/I2STte4pl4
- Jul 27, 202628x their median
Introducing our first July digital cover featuring @edisgorgulu . One of Turkey’s biggest pop stars, Edis opens up to GQ about his music, career, and taking Turkish creativity to the global stage https://t.co/vmQmLVMime
- Jul 31, 202613x their median
🚨 NEW PRINT ISSUE 🚨 Our 2nd August print cover stars @sdumo123 . Fresh off The Polygamist, the award-winning actor reflects on purpose, faith and playing the long game. On shelves now and digitally via the link in bio. #GQxSdumoMtshali #GQWealthAndSuccessIssue https://t.co/MqF6ViZFTJ
- Aug 30, 20267.0x their median
GQ Best Dressed is almost here and we’re celebrating 20 years. Want to join us + a partner at our invite-only celebration? 1. Buy the September issue 2. DM us a pic or post & tag @GQdotcoza 3. Use #RoadToGQBestDressed Lucky readers will hear from us soon. https://t.co/sLzePBjPWs
- Jul 28, 20267.0x their median
@dumzamaswana brings African heritage to life with the EZIKO Heritage Festival in Hamburg, Eastern Cape, on 7–8 August. Featuring Mandisi Dyantyis, The Soil, Internet Athi, Zawadi Yamungu, and Joliza, it's a celebration of culture, creativity, and community. https://t.co/9nPA5JCGf4
- Aug 21, 20266.5x their median
Our 3rd digital cover star is here. Introducing @UncleSego With the release of his 3rd album Fix Your Face, he has made his most vulnerable project to date. Read more reading the link below: https://t.co/7GBa5GJUhs https://t.co/zVlc9kMvTH
- Aug 14, 20264.5x their median
Presenting our 2nd August digital cover, featuring @_ThebeMagugu_ in collab with @ChivasRegalSA The award-winning designer discusses the inspiration behind their limited-edition collab & his global impact on African fashion. Not for persons under 18. Drink responsibly. https://t.co/Zonzrxk6AW
- Jul 31, 20264.5x their median
🚨 NEW PRINT ISSUE 🚨 Presenting our 1st August print cover in partnership with @UnderArmour , starring @MusaKeyss . The amapiano hitmaker talks style, music and staying true to himself. On shelves now and digitally via the link in bio. #GQxMusaKeys #GQxUnderArmour https://t.co/tCcVRTQPtN
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 370K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% of 3,917 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 934 times each, and 0.214% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.252% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 79% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 836 interactions, about 418x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #wemovewithyou, #wesbank, #amextennistown.
- What is GQ South Africa's engagement rate on X?
- GQ South Africa (@GQdotcoza) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 28 original posts from the last 30 days against 370,302 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, GQ South Africa sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,856 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 @GQdotcoza have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 3% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @GQdotcoza post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.2 posts per day across the measured window.