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TheStarKenya engagement report

@TheStarKenya - 2.4M followers on X

Measured over 391 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 2.4M followers
Per impression
0.105%
1.9K views on a typical post
Reach
0.08%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
13.03/day
active 33% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 391 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% 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 1.9K times each, and 0.105% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.079% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 13 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 391 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video and 63% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 522 interactions, about 261x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #starkenyanews, #starinfographics.

Measured over 391 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #starkenyanews, #starinfographics.

Compared with accounts its own size

TheStarKenya's engagement rate beats 2% 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 9% 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%, TheStarKenya sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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%
p750.432%
p902.10%
p99161.0%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,378 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,364 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 percentile0.432%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile161.0%

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 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 12:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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%52K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
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%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
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 24, 2026261x their median

    A highly guarded two-day strategy retreat of the Linda Mwananchi movement has resolved that the group moves to court to compel the registration of its political party. https://t.co/kihYFbG3Ll

    4258010758K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202684x their median

    Editorial cartoon #starkenyanews https://t.co/4PHTKHZ7tY

    13234207.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202668x their median

    Mwingi Central MP Gideon Mulyungi has apologised to Life Water Canada over controversial remarks he made about the organisation https://t.co/BN4FVK2PON

    872221518K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202638x their median

    Isiolo Governor Abdi Guyo has hit back at former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, saying claims of banditry and livestock theft are being used to bully political leaders and influence Isiolo residents' political choices. https://t.co/EA8QBKwTtz

    7222024K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202628x their median

    Two people, including a police officer, were killed and 46 others injured during violent clashes that disrupted the Linda Mwananchi rally in Homa Bay Town on Sunday, August 16, 2026. Police said the officer was driving a police vehicle at high speed when he was struck by a flying stone. #starkenyanews

    3221127.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202625x their median

    Politics Unfiltered | Embakasi East MP Babu Owino Watch full video:https://t.co/Fr4Shwg5iX https://t.co/u9wuWNeylX

    4521110K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202624x their median

    President William Ruto and his estranged former deputy Rigathi Gachagua will be in the US at the same time, the Star can report. https://t.co/Abh90T7xEs

    3746112K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202622x their median

    COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli pledges to support Deputy President Kithure Kindiki in standing with President William Ruto, describing Kindiki as an honest, pragmatic and loyal leader. https://t.co/Q4P8H6VaRf

    383308.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202622x their median

    Kisumu Journalists Network condemns the attack on journalists covering the Linda Mwananchi rally in Homa Bay, where some were assaulted, equipment stolen and vehicles damaged. KJN calls for journalists to be allowed to work without intimidation or violence. https://t.co/LJVmDnpByV

    3481011K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 202620x their median

    Police detained activists during a protest outside Nairobi police headquarters, where demonstrators called for reforms and the resignation of Inspector General Douglas Kanja. https://t.co/3SMw4pECFi

    3513011K 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

#starkenyanews#starinfographics

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 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 391 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% 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 1.9K times each, and 0.105% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.079% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 13 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 391 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video and 63% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 522 interactions, about 261x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #starkenyanews, #starinfographics.

What is TheStarKenya's engagement rate on X?
TheStarKenya (@TheStarKenya) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 391 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,419,285 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At under 0.001%, TheStarKenya sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 @TheStarKenya have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @TheStarKenya post?
Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 13.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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