Sahara Reporters engagement report
@SaharaReporters - 5.5M followers on X
Measured over 437 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 40 interactions against 5.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 437 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 3,739 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 0.206% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.35% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 15 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 437 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.8K interactions, about 95x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #osundecides2026, #saharasports101.
Measured over 437 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #osundecides2026, #saharasports101.
Compared with accounts its own size
Sahara Reporters's engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 20% 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%, Sahara Reporters sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 17:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 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% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 21, 202695x their median
FBI Says Release Of Withheld Tinubu Records Could ‘Endanger Life’, Seeks Secret Court Review | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/3258AT5MH0 https://t.co/WUGwq65Off
- Aug 23, 202687x their median
BREAKING: Veteran Nollywood Actor Taiwo Hassan ‘Ogogo’ Dies After Battle With Stage 4 Cancer | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/WU09EVmtjS https://t.co/Ou8VAATCwz
- Aug 18, 202645x their median
Ex-President Jonathan Warns Tinubu, Governors: 'Stop Invading States With Security Machinery During Elections' | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/exE6PuoP0R https://t.co/uP8AJBRmcY
- Aug 16, 202642x their median
BREAKING: Adeleke Wins Osun Governorship Election With 511,067 Votes | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/W1MnapB36p https://t.co/zRhQF63sig
- Aug 21, 202634x their median
WATCH: Travellers Accuse JTF Operatives At Imo Checkpoints Of Extortion, Threats To Kill After Labeling Them IPOB Members More on SaharaTV: https://t.co/XedVxzP0JR https://t.co/ndh9uDMUwr
- Aug 16, 202630x their median
Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party is set to be announced as the winner of the Osun governorship election after leading in the official results announced by INEC from the 30 Local Government Areas in the state. FOLLOW LIVE: https://t.co/sSjTwAoXYu #OsunDecides2026 https://t.co/jQrs2xf6jM
- Aug 21, 202629x their median
EXCLUSIVE: ‘They Tried To Shoot Me And Tag Me IPOB Member: Travellers Accuse JTF Operatives At Imo Checkpoints Of Extortion, Threats To Kill | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/77uOrnXALc https://t.co/k9oDBuPfLI
- Aug 25, 202629x their median
‘Stop Inviting Dictators To Come Address Lawyers’ — Falana Blasts NBA For Inviting George Weah, Accuses Him Of Capturing Liberia’s Judiciary Watch more on SaharaTV: https://t.co/MapOw7CJNJ https://t.co/31Cx3WKZ6T
- Aug 28, 202628x their median
Imo JTF Operatives Search Phones, Access Bank Accounts, Extort Money From Travellers, Youths More on SaharaTV: https://t.co/dVeW1t4GVf https://t.co/3eUnLV0GM5
- Aug 18, 202626x their median
U.S. Judge Sets New Deadline For Release Of Records On Allegations Linking Tinubu To Drug Trafficking –Atiku's US Lobbying Firm | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/WWAEXb1KfA https://t.co/PQiGAS64Je
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 40 interactions against 5.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 437 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 3,739 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 0.206% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.35% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 15 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 437 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.8K interactions, about 95x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #osundecides2026, #saharasports101.
- What is Sahara Reporters's engagement rate on X?
- Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 437 original posts from the last 30 days against 5,544,738 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Sahara Reporters sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @SaharaReporters have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @SaharaReporters post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 14.97 posts per day across the measured window.