The New Times (Rwanda) engagement report
@NewTimesRwanda - 583K followers on X
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 13 interactions against 583K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,774 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 3.0K times each, and 0.439% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.507% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 66% carry an image or video and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 188 interactions, about 14x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #kagame, #rwanda.
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #kagame, #rwanda.
Compared with accounts its own size
The New Times (Rwanda)'s engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 31% 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 0.002%, The New Times (Rwanda) sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.4% |
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 12:00 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% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 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% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 25, 202614x their median
WATCH: President #Kagame, alongside other high-level officials, arrive at the Kigali Convention Centre to join more than 2,500 participants at the inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum. The two-day forum is being held under the theme “From Pan-Africanism to Meta-Africanism.” https://t.co/1Z2kwst7gb
- Aug 25, 20269.7x their median
WATCH: “Yes, there is an Africa we want. Why can’t we have the Africa we want since we have everything in place? It means there is something we have to identify that keeps failing us.” President #Kagame speaking during a high-level panel discussion at the inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum.
- Aug 25, 20267.9x their median
WATCH: “We have to match what we say and what we want with what we do and then be able to see the results. There are no two ways about it.” “Why don’t we do things that we can actually admire each other for? Among us, there are people who are capable of doing good things. Why don’t we join them? “That attitude and mindset of admiring others is what reduces us to being subjects of all kinds of dictates.” President #Kagame speaking during a high-level panel discussion at the inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum.
- Aug 25, 20267.8x their median
PHOTOS: President #Kagame attends the ongoing inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum, hosted by the African School of Governance (ASG). According to Village Urugwiro, President Kagame joined other high-level officials, including former Ethiopian Prime Minister and ASG co-founder Hailemariam Desalegn; Ghana’s Vice President, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang; former South African President Thabo Mbeki; and African Development Bank President Sidi Ould Tah. More than 2,500 participants are gathered at the Kigali Convention Centre, while over 6,000 others are joining online through watch parties across the continent.
- Aug 25, 20267.6x their median
“Don’t just pick a fight because you can fight. Choose a moment, for which there must be a just cause, and when you are clear about it and have done all the checks, then give it the fight it deserves. But be selective.” President #Kagame tells youth at the inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum.
- Aug 26, 20265.2x their median
𝐑𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐰𝐟𝟏𝟑𝟗𝐛𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭-𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 • Rwanda has secured ¥15 billion (about Rwf138.9 billion) in its first-ever yen-denominated financing, alongside €82 million (about Rwf140.8 billion) in a dual-currency commercial loan. • The financing has a 15-year maturity and a six-year grace period, with principal repayments starting after Rwanda’s outstanding Eurobond matures. • Finance Minister Yusuf Murangwa said the yen-denominated tranche opens a new source of international capital and will help diversify Rwanda’s financing sources. • The facility is backed by the World Bank Group through a Policy-Based Guarantee and will support infrastructure, health, education, agriculture, social protection and industry development. https://t.co/fxO8s30iph
- Aug 25, 20264.8x their median
WATCH: “We cannot just have an Africa we want. We must have an Africa we work for, contribute to, and an Africa we are willing to sacrifice for.” Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Vice President of Ghana, speaking during a high-level panel discussion at the inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum.
- Aug 25, 20264.2x their median
WATCH: “We need leadership with a mindset of principled and dedicated agents of fundamental change to enable our continent to achieve its renaissance.” Former South African President Thabo Mbeki made the remarks at the inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum in Kigali. https://t.co/bviihJlwSs
- Aug 25, 20263.2x their median
“It’s in your capacity, ability, and every possibility to give your life a purpose and to make a choice. A choice that, when you make it, is not going to be confined to your life but has an impact on other people’s lives.” President #Kagame tells the youth at the inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum.
- Aug 25, 20262.1x their median
𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐊𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 • President Paul Kagame has urged young Africans to take ownership of their future, saying meaningful change requires courage to make difficult choices and reject unwanted circumstances. • Speaking at the Africa Mindset Reset Forum in Kigali, Kagame said young people should not allow fear of failure or criticism to stop them from pursuing a different path. • He challenged Africans to stop looking outside the continent for examples of success and ask, “Why can’t we do things that make us admire ourselves?” • Kagame urged aspiring young leaders to challenge existing ways of doing things while accepting responsibility for the choices they make. Read more: https://t.co/Juw0N0Q2eS
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 13 interactions against 583K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,774 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 3.0K times each, and 0.439% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.507% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 66% carry an image or video and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 188 interactions, about 14x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #kagame, #rwanda.
- What is The New Times (Rwanda)'s engagement rate on X?
- The New Times (Rwanda) (@NewTimesRwanda) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 47 original posts from the last 30 days against 583,369 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, The New Times (Rwanda) sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 @NewTimesRwanda have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @NewTimesRwanda post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.83 posts per day across the measured window.