News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ engagement report
@News24 - 6.6M followers on X
Measured over 469 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 20 interactions against 6.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 469 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,862 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 19K times each, and 0.104% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.289% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 16 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 469 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 94% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.3K interactions, about 365x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #boksearch, #fordadventure, #mustbeklippies.
Measured over 469 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #boksearch, #fordadventure, #mustbeklippies.
Compared with accounts its own size
News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ's engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 9% 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%, News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,350 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 | 0.437% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.9% |
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 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 100K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 93K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 82K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 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% | 235K |
| Monday | 0% | 296K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 292K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 254K |
| Thursday | -2% | 248K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 2026365x their median
Six months later, and still no recruitment of 10 000 labour inspectors promised at SONA https://t.co/uoAL5PX5wI
- Aug 26, 2026181x their median
KZN man working on US farm gets 12 years in jail for child sexual abuse material https://t.co/RCiZtwRSD2
- Aug 16, 2026118x their median
R1.8bn firefighting contract awarded to company with no experience fighting fires https://t.co/dr4NuwaQLg
- Sep 1, 2026105x their median
Half of housebreaking victims donโt call cops because they wonโt โdo anythingโ - Stats SA https://t.co/Q6UaWPc84Z
- Aug 25, 202696x their median
ANC councillors without matric must commit to study or face removal, says Motlanthe https://t.co/wWJbnXopTw
- Aug 20, 202681x their median
Author Tlotlo Tsheka, 7, dies after sudden illness, leaving a legacy beyond her years https://t.co/tU1EwMFxPy
- Aug 14, 202681x their median
Western Cape municipalities sitting on R1.76bn in irregular expenditure https://t.co/HBI7H3Jzbi
- Aug 23, 202678x their median
Ramaphosa appoints Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams as acting health minister https://t.co/jbZZuJ9lE2
- Aug 17, 202663x their median
LIVE | 'Morgan Maumela is my friend and a person who i have previously conducted business with' - Matlala https://t.co/QZMZe097vz https://t.co/q32b8FNIqj
- Aug 14, 202663x their median
Pilchards with herpes? Probe into mass sardine deaths on the West Coast finds virus https://t.co/LXYZbTUqnT
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 20 interactions against 6.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 469 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,862 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 19K times each, and 0.104% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.289% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 16 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 469 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 94% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.3K interactions, about 365x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #boksearch, #fordadventure, #mustbeklippies.
- What is News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ's engagement rate on X?
- News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ (@News24) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 469 original posts from the last 30 days against 6,639,330 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, News24 ๐ฟ๐ฆ sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,350 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 @News24 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 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 @News24 post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 16.03 posts per day across the measured window.