Public Protector South Africa engagement report
@PublicProtector - 515K followers on X
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 515K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% 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 0.198% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.589% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 6% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 87 interactions, about 15x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ethics, #accountability, #impact.
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026. Recurring tags: #ethics, #accountability, #impact.
Compared with accounts its own size
Public Protector South Africa's engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 16% 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%, Public Protector South Africa sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 Wednesday 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% | 53K |
| 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% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 23, 202615x their median
WATCH | Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka says there's a need to enforce culture in the country. She was speaking at the St Paul African Apostolic Church Annual Feast in Moletsane, Soweto. https://t.co/cnRY6xgqk5
- Aug 13, 20269.3x their median
Happy International Left-Handers Day https://t.co/vgsQWcDGJ4
- Jul 10, 20265.5x their median
"Public Protector's report made me realise there is hope..." one of the complainants on the Langa Flats and Khayelitsha investigation matters tells @Newzroom405 Video | Courtesy of Newzroom Afrika | Malungelo Booi https://t.co/fi5PVTTgPH
- Aug 4, 20265.2x their median
MATTER OF FACT! @SAHRCommission @CRL_Commission @CGE_ZA @AuditorGen_SA @IECSouthAfrica https://t.co/7zPUEiOFNc
- Aug 13, 20264.0x their median
Criminalise sexual extortion, says Public Protector #ethics #accountability #integrity #responsiveness https://t.co/0kLIeyct38
- Aug 4, 20262.0x their median
Maladministration and corruption behind challenges facing education system, PP Gcaleka tells SAELA conference #ethics #integrity #services #impact https://t.co/Xbl6bRuw45
- Aug 18, 20261.5x their median
HEADS UP | Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka updated the public on the systemic probe into funding & governance failures by NSFAS, DHET, and universities regarding student financial aid. #ethics #integrity #accountability #impact #responsiveness https://t.co/jl9SxW40SH
- Aug 5, 2026
https://t.co/AvrIvLfIqx
- Jul 23, 2026
https://t.co/d9ig46X0Lf
- Aug 13, 2026
https://t.co/GcY6X8BYdL
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 6 interactions against 515K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% 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 0.198% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.589% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 6% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 87 interactions, about 15x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ethics, #accountability, #impact.
- What is Public Protector South Africa's engagement rate on X?
- Public Protector South Africa (@PublicProtector) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 514,947 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Public Protector South Africa sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @PublicProtector have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @PublicProtector post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.07 posts per day across the measured window.