Newzroom Afrika engagement report
@Newzroom405 - 939K followers on X
Measured over 111 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 939K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 111 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% 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 4.5K times each, and 0.265% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.482% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 111 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video and 38% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 554 interactions, about 46x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #newzroom405, #madlangacommission, #amreport405.
Measured over 111 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026. Recurring tags: #newzroom405, #madlangacommission, #amreport405.
Compared with accounts its own size
Newzroom Afrika's engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 21% 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%, Newzroom Afrika sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,582 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 | 158.1% |
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 07:00 UTC, and Thursday 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% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 237K |
| Monday | 0% | 300K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 299K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 256K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 258K |
| Saturday | +3% | 232K |
Best tweets
- Aug 20, 202646x their median
[WATCH] "Mr Adams, I really can't keep up with the various versions that you are giving," says #MadlangaCommission evidence leader Adv. Lee Segeels-Ncube during Fadiel Adams' cross-examination regarding how he came into contact with IDAC. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/bj9ANSLHfL
- Aug 27, 202645x their median
[BREAKING NEWS] Suspended EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi issued with arrest warrant over the unauthorised issuing of blue lights. Mkhwanazi is being held in the holding cells over charges relating to the murder of businessman Emmanuel Mbense. Tune into #Newzroom405 for more. https://t.co/JBGtQ2rSL2
- Aug 20, 202635x their median
[BREAKING NEWS] Stuart Scharnick arrested outside the #MadlangaCommission in Pretoria for alleged intimidation of a journalist. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/H98XhYB2Zg
- Aug 27, 202622x their median
[BREAKING NEWS] ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula serves Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma with court papers over her vote-buying claims. Tune into #Newzroom405 for more. https://t.co/hNNkewi6gn
- Aug 20, 202622x their median
[WATCH] “I was wrong… I don't think that was in the envelope,” Fadiel Adams admits there was nothing in the alleged envelope he received which related to Gen. Lushaba’s housebreaking issue. Adams says he got the information regading the incident from either Patricia Mashale or Mary de Haas. #MadlangaCommission
- Aug 20, 202620x their median
[WATCH] “No Mr Adams, you cannot rely on a dead man every time, it's unacceptable,” #MadlangaCommission evidence leader Adv. Lee Segeels-Ncube tells the MP on the witness stand. https://t.co/K6s2skTzGz
- Aug 27, 202615x their median
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party has announced the immediate expulsion of two MPs, Pumlani Kubukeli and Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala. Kubukeli tells #Newzroom405’s @vuyo_mvoko that he’ll challenge the decision and has consulted his legal team. Watch: https://t.co/j3MVxAAI9T https://t.co/1YheYPyDZg
- Aug 20, 202613x their median
[WATCH] #Newzroom405's @JuniourKhumalo_ speaks to Sowetan journalist @Moloi_Herman1. Moloi was allegedly intimidated by NCC leader Fadiel Adams’ associate Stuart Scharnick at the Madlanga Commission. https://t.co/yUNjkJOrOx
- Aug 19, 202610x their median
[WATCH] Fadiel Adams is quizzed about the chronology of events from when he "discovered" top secret documents, and opening multiple cases (across different provincial jurisdictions) within a short space of time after claiming his initial dockets were intercepted. #Newzroom405 https://t.co/pUHWuZoSbW
- Aug 20, 20269.8x their median
ATM parliamentary leader and Section 89 Impeachment Committee member Vuyolwethu Zungula has dismissed President Cyril Ramaphosa's objection to the nomination of Advocate Griffiths Madonsela as evidence leader of the committee over a conflict of interest. He says the president's objections were brought to the fore before Madonsela's nomination. Zungula says Ramaphosa must respect black professionals. Watch: https://t.co/CKp4J9Urq7 #Newzroom405
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 12 interactions against 939K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 111 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% 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 4.5K times each, and 0.265% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.482% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 111 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video and 38% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 554 interactions, about 46x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #newzroom405, #madlangacommission, #amreport405.
- What is Newzroom Afrika's engagement rate on X?
- Newzroom Afrika (@Newzroom405) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 111 original posts from the last 30 days against 938,917 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Newzroom Afrika sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,582 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 @Newzroom405 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 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 @Newzroom405 post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.9 posts per day across the measured window.