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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

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 609K followers
Per impression
0.088%
2.3K views on a typical post
Reach
0.37%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.37/day
active 10% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Tuesday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.436%
p902.10%
p99160.2%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,214 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,785 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 percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.436%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.2%

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.

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: 08:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 08:00 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%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
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%234K
Monday0%294K
Tuesday-3%288K
Wednesday-1%253K
Thursday-2%247K
Friday-3%256K
Saturday+3%230K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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

    185183058K viewsView on X
  • 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

    22703.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20265.0x their median

    #JoburgUpdates Central System Update https://t.co/DwwAbaymrF ^LM https://t.co/QLu8MvdCZn

    10902.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20264.5x their median

    #JoburgUpdates Update: Roodepoort Systems: Power Outage Impacts Rand Water’s Eikenhof Pump Station ^LM https://t.co/n6gpw1NWFx

    20704.7K viewsView on X
  • 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

    00703.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20263.5x their median

    #JoburgUpdates Randburg Systems Update https://t.co/lU5uSnWomG ^LM https://t.co/Egn6jqMBEY

    10603.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20263.0x their median

    #JoburgUpdates Central System Update https://t.co/DwwAbaymrF ^LM https://t.co/YYGVUelpEh

    1140814 viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20263.0x their median

    #JoburgUpdates Unplanned Water Interruption: Canning Road – Lombardy East ^SD https://t.co/bCC6BHbRbj

    20402.7K viewsView on X
  • 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

    31205.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.5x their median

    Daily water supply system status updates: Wednesday, 26 August 2026 (Morning) https://t.co/JA1aYeSM3P

    01401.5K 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

#joburgupdates#weservejoburg#payforservices#throttlingschedulethrottling

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.

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