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Times LIVE engagement report

@TimesLIVE - 2.2M followers on X

Measured over 424 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 2.2M followers
Per impression
0.092%
2.2K views on a typical post
Reach
0.1%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
14.97/day
active 40% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 2.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 424 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 2.2K times each, and 0.092% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.1% 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 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 424 posts sampled, 16% carry an image or video and 91% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 757x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sundaytimesza, #audi, #etron.

Measured over 424 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #sundaytimesza, #audi, #etron.

Compared with accounts its own size

Times LIVE'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 8% 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%, Times LIVE 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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.431%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,137 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 percentile0.431%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 14:00 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.

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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 14:00 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%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
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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%229K
Monday0%284K
Tuesday-2%273K
Wednesday-1%250K
Thursday-2%243K
Friday-3%251K
Saturday+3%226K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 23, 2026757x their median

    WATCH | At one Free State housing project, 118 flats have been completed, at an average cost of about R3.6m each. The original planned cost was R233,000 per flat. Sunday times editor Makhudu Sefara unpacks. https://t.co/qqrvSwWaLM

    899523405271K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 2026458x their median

    Party finance chief Mark Burke has donated more than R400,000 to the DA as his fintech company faces scrutiny over R4bn in transactions. https://t.co/IpJlAncwZC

    4753564342148K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 2026330x their median

    What if Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni stopped being three separate cities? The ANC's Nomvula Mokonyane says the party is weighing a radical shake-up of Gauteng's municipal boundaries, one that could merge the metros into a single "city region." Link in comments. https://t.co/KGieASMTPq

    216622869581K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 2026320x their median

    South Africa plans to raise free basic electricity for poor households to 300kWh monthly. https://t.co/xh3dGNh692

    377891294558K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 2026227x their median

    The MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) have dropped the Best Afrobeats category from their 2026 nominations, following two consecutive wins by South African superstar Tyla. 🔗Link in comments. https://t.co/ptCG9YC6Ls

    35364132355K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 2026151x their median

    Chidimma Adetshina said the spirit of Ubuntu should guide the country through the dispute. https://t.co/BzdFcUoOBi

    651016759106K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 2026112x their median

    Former University of the Witwatersrand vice-chancellor Adam Habib has endorsed DA Joburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille as the right person to save Johannesburg from collapse. 🔗Link in comments. https://t.co/VnNvlkkFoZ

    12631432310K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202685x their median

    A suspicion over the source of funds used to purchase a R1.65m Mercedes-Benz AMG G63 at a Pretoria dealership in 2024 is what led to the arrest of Tshwane metro police officer Peter Nonyane, 36, also known as "Lamasweet" or "Greater Gagash Municipality", and his wife. 🔗 Link in comments.

    134296121K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 202682x their median

    WATCH | Annelene van der Heever, representing Vusimusi Cat Matlala, says the emergency doctor who attended to Musa Kekana’s admission at Edenvale Hospital has no independent recollection of the day beyond her notes. Van der Heever questioned her credibility, noting that she had only been an emergency doctor for 17 days at the time. Video: Thandolwethu Khumalo

    125279346K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 202657x their median

    It is unacceptable and outrageous that suspended EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi has earned R1.2m from the ratepayers of Ekurhuleni while he sits in a cell awaiting criminal justice, the DA said on Monday. https://t.co/EjF6C4QkTV

    70291135.5K 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

#sundaytimesza#audi#etron#gt#rs

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 2.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 424 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 2.2K times each, and 0.092% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.1% 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 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 424 posts sampled, 16% carry an image or video and 91% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 757x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sundaytimesza, #audi, #etron.

What is Times LIVE's engagement rate on X?
Times LIVE (@TimesLIVE) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 424 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,172,935 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At under 0.001%, Times LIVE 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 @TimesLIVE 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 @TimesLIVE post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 14.97 posts per day across the measured window.

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