Sahara Reporters engagement report
@SaharaReporters - 5.5M followers on X
Measured over 891 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 25 interactions against 5.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 891 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 21,624 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 15K times each, and 0.171% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.264% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 29.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 891 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.3K interactions, about 214x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #endsars, #felabration2026.
Measured over 891 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #endsars, #felabration2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Sahara Reporters's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 12% 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 217,635 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.148% |
| 75th percentile | 0.704% |
| 90th percentile | 2.63% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 96% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 96% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 165 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Sep 29, 2026214x their median
BREAKING: Borno Police Arrest Five Men For Wearing ‘Tinubu Must Go’ T-Shirts, Remand Them In Prison | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/WVQUL5tSAs https://t.co/Oe6ExKXwnX
- Aug 21, 2026152x 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, 2026139x 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
- Sep 21, 2026136x their median
US Plaintiff Greenspan Asks Court To Force FBI, DEA To Release 1990s Files On Tinubu, Challenges Privacy Claim | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/aV6Wcj1aLL https://t.co/04QMOlFlwY
- Sep 12, 2026125x their median
BREAKING: Five Islamic Clerics Abducted After Attending Prayer For Tinubu’s Re-Election At Senator Yari’s Zamfara Residence | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/4lFHlaVjES https://t.co/BlueDg2V8N
- Oct 17, 2026111x their median
WATCH: Youths In APC Campaign Shirts Parade With Guns, Fire Shots Ahead Of Kogi LG Election More on SaharaTV: https://t.co/ZPP3alfZ6w https://t.co/Om307n1AjO
- Sep 18, 2026105x their median
WATCH: Bandits Kill Security Commander Defending Kwara Community, Kidnap Two Residents https://t.co/Y1rfylo9jI
- Oct 25, 202674x their median
Crowd Boos Tinubu, Other Dignitaries, Chants 'Ba Ma Yi' At APC Campaign In Kaduna | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/SrWGEi7Wbq https://t.co/FfDF3QkUxB
- Aug 18, 202672x 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
- Sep 19, 202670x their median
Nigerian Catholic Bishops Raise Fresh Alarm Over Rising Insecurity, Hardship Under Tinubu Govt | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/fuixIyB1YI https://t.co/JvC5VRxL3s
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 25 interactions against 5.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 891 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 21,624 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 15K times each, and 0.171% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.264% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 29.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 891 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.3K interactions, about 214x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #endsars, #felabration2026.
- 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 891 original posts from the last 30 days against 5,540,873 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 217,635 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 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 @SaharaReporters post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 29.87 posts per day across the measured window.