Johannesburg Water engagement report
@JHBWater - 609K followers on X
Measured over 41 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 609K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 41 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 3,829 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 2.3K times each, and 0.088% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.374% 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 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 41 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 152 interactions, about 76x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #joburgupdates, #weservejoburg, #payforservices.
Measured over 41 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #joburgupdates, #weservejoburg, #payforservices.
Compared with accounts its own size
Johannesburg Water's engagement rate beats 4% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 7% 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 under 0.001%, Johannesburg Water sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,214 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 | 0.436% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.2% |
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 08:00 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.
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% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 81K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 234K |
| Monday | 0% | 294K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 288K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 247K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 5, 202676x their median
Have you saved our new Contact Centre number? Make sure you've saved Johannesburg Water's new contact number: ☎️ 010 061 4470 We're just a call away. #WeServeJoburg https://t.co/6wbp0njFvg
- Aug 25, 20265.5x their median
#JoburgUpdates Update: Roodepoort and Roodepoort Systems: Power Outage Impacts Rand Water’s Eikenhof Pump Station ^M https://t.co/0mqwJJRZi3
- Aug 25, 20265.0x their median
#JoburgUpdates Central System Update https://t.co/DwwAbaymrF ^LM https://t.co/QLu8MvdCZn
- Aug 25, 20264.5x their median
#JoburgUpdates Update: Roodepoort Systems: Power Outage Impacts Rand Water’s Eikenhof Pump Station ^LM https://t.co/n6gpw1NWFx
- Aug 25, 20263.5x their median
#JoburgUpdates Progress and Status Update of Commando System Following the Unplanned Power Outage Impacting Rand Water’s Eikenhof Pump Station ^SD https://t.co/m9Qm33ICJP
- Aug 25, 20263.5x their median
#JoburgUpdates Randburg Systems Update https://t.co/lU5uSnWomG ^LM https://t.co/Egn6jqMBEY
- Aug 26, 20263.0x their median
#JoburgUpdates Central System Update https://t.co/DwwAbaymrF ^LM https://t.co/YYGVUelpEh
- Aug 25, 20263.0x their median
#JoburgUpdates Unplanned Water Interruption: Canning Road – Lombardy East ^SD https://t.co/bCC6BHbRbj
- Aug 25, 20263.0x their median
JW Systems: Progress and Status Update Following Power Outage at Rand Water Eikenhof Pump Station - Deep South ^PK https://t.co/f3heBdT0Nw
- Aug 26, 20262.5x their median
Daily water supply system status updates: Wednesday, 26 August 2026 (Morning) https://t.co/JA1aYeSM3P
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 609K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 41 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 3,829 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 2.3K times each, and 0.088% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.374% 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 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 41 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 152 interactions, about 76x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #joburgupdates, #weservejoburg, #payforservices.
- What is Johannesburg Water's engagement rate on X?
- Johannesburg Water (@JHBWater) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 41 original posts from the last 30 days against 609,259 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Johannesburg Water sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,214 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 @JHBWater have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 4% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 @JHBWater post?
- Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.