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SABC News Radio engagement report

@SABCNews_Radio - 904K followers on X

Measured over 76 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 904K followers
Per impression
0.233%
858 views on a typical post
Reach
0.09%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.73/day
active 7% of days
Peak time
05:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 904K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 76 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 3,809 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 858 times each, and 0.233% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.095% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 76 posts sampled, 79% carry an image or video and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 787 interactions, about 394x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sabcnews, #updateatnoon, #firsttakesa.

Measured over 76 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #sabcnews, #updateatnoon, #firsttakesa.

Compared with accounts its own size

SABC News Radio's engagement rate beats 4% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 18% 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%, SABC News Radio sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,852 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99159.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,852 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,564 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 percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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 05:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 05:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 05:00 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%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
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%232K
Monday0%290K
Tuesday-2%281K
Wednesday-1%252K
Thursday-2%245K
Friday-3%254K
Saturday+3%228K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 28, 2026394x their median

    Almost 90 undocumented migrants have been found at a construction site in Sunninghill, north of Johannesburg, during a multidisciplinary blitz operation. Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Jomo Sibiya and Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero are leading the inspection. https://t.co/UlbWK36FI2

    484223512955K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 202660x their median

    WATCH | The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has withdrawn fraud and corruption charges against Crime Intelligence head Dumisani Khumalo, Brigadier Dineo Mokwele and five co-accused in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. https://t.co/W7qFGx7Zxw

    84296113K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202644x their median

    The case against Imogen Mashazi, Kemi Behari, Linda Gxasheka and Julius Mkhwanazi has been postponed to October for disclosure. Credit: Neria Hlakotsa #UpdateAtNoon #sabcnews https://t.co/XDJdIOVjag

    67201010K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 202628x their median

    Officials are going from store to store, including butcheries and shops, checking whether employers are complying with labour laws, as Labour Minister Nomakhosazana Meth and Joburg Mayor Dada Morero lead blitz inspections in and around the Johannesburg CBD. #UpdateAtNoon https://t.co/pvdhJfcUB5

    4110412.3K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202624x their median

    Joburg Mayor Dada Morero has apologised for his utterances, following a heated verbal exchange with a resident during a City Power Tshepisong Electricity Imbizo in Soweto. #UpdateAtNoon #sabcnews https://t.co/jhUoMwydZh

    1952128.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20268.5x their median

    [TALKING POINT] The MK Party has expelled two Members of Parliament, Dr. Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala and Pumlani Kubukeli with immediate effect. What do you think is driving the continuous abrupt expulsions of high profile leaders in the MK Party? #SABCNews #FirstTakeSA https://t.co/agnLjAtjJR

    93322.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20268.0x their median

    Gauteng police have arrested five suspects following the discovery of a hydroponic dagga laboratory valued at more R1 million in De Deur, in the Vaal. The suspects include two Jamaican nationals, two Malawians and a Lesotho national. Credit: SAPS #UpdateAtNoon #sabcnews https://t.co/E93ePrzqUO

    103215.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20265.0x their median

    BREAKING: The National Prosecuting Authority has formally withdrew fraud and corruption charges against Crime Intelligence head Dumisani Khumalo, Brigadier Dineo Mokwele and five others in the Pretoria Magistrates court. #UpdateAtNoon #sabcnews https://t.co/Q28H8OZoq2

    90101.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20264.5x their median

    [LISTEN] MKP MP, Andile Mgxitama: "Ramaphosa has no interest in being accountable; he always finds protection from the Judiciary" https://t.co/rwTAkgPzK2 #SABCNews #FirstTakeSA https://t.co/lcwK2Tq5k9

    61112.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20264.0x their median

    Police have uncovered a laboratory, reportedly with drugs worth more than R600 million in Musina, Limpopo. #UpdateAtNoon #sabcnews https://t.co/GUA7tW2mYf

    71004.4K 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

#sabcnews#updateatnoon#firsttakesa#podcast#sabckzn

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 904K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 76 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 3,809 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 858 times each, and 0.233% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.095% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 76 posts sampled, 79% carry an image or video and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 787 interactions, about 394x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sabcnews, #updateatnoon, #firsttakesa.

What is SABC News Radio's engagement rate on X?
SABC News Radio (@SABCNews_Radio) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 76 original posts from the last 30 days against 903,686 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At under 0.001%, SABC News Radio sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,852 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 @SABCNews_Radio have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 4% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 @SABCNews_Radio post?
Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.73 posts per day across the measured window.

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