ZBC News engagement report
@ZBCNewsonline - 789K followers on X
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 789K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% of 3,899 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 2.9K times each, and 0.204% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.373% 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 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video and 60% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 71 interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cricket, #economicstability, #inflation.
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #cricket, #economicstability, #inflation.
Compared with accounts its own size
ZBC News's engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 16% 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%, ZBC News sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 156.3% |
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 13:00 UTC, and Sunday 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 22, 202612x their median
RBZ MANTAINS CURRENT MONETARY POLICY STANCE RBZ Governor Dr John Mushayavanhu says the central bank will maintain its current monetary policy stance, citing sustained macro-economic stability and low inflation. #RBZ #MonetaryPolicy #ZimbabweEconomy #Inflation #EconomicStability #Zimbabwe
- Aug 31, 20268.2x their median
A 24-YEAR-OLD Midlands State University Computer Science student has landed in court over an alleged cyber heist in which CABS is said to have lost US$1,1 million through fraudulent VISA and ZIPIT transactions. https://t.co/lcpDWH3zLV https://t.co/bfSiUSF4DR
- Aug 22, 20268.0x their median
PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA CALLS FOR YOUTH TO DRIVE VALUE FROM AFRICA’S MINERAL President Dr Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for greater involvement of young people in harnessing Zimbabwe and South Africa’s vast natural resources, saying their innovation and expertise are key to driving regional economic growth. #Zimbabwe #SouthAfrica #Mnangagwa #YouthEmpowerment #Innovation #Mining #EconomicGrowth #BNC
- Aug 22, 20267.3x their median
PRESIDENT Dr Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe’s relations with Belarus are set to deepen, with the two countries expanding cooperation in areas including agriculture, education, trade and information and communication technologies. https://t.co/a4NPqgCsrD https://t.co/fgehJrvEgx
- Aug 21, 20266.5x their median
BAKO RADENIAS’ UNTOLD STORY Deep in the mountains of Mutoko lies Bako raDenias, a cave that became a sanctuary for freedom fighters during the liberation struggle. War collaborator Nzero “Denias” Jani and his family lived there for years, providing food, shelter and assistance to wounded fighters while evading Rhodesian forces. #BakoRaDenias #LiberationStruggle #SecondChimurenga #ZimbabweHistory #WarCollaborators #Mutoko #HeroesMonth #ZBCNews
- Aug 22, 20266.0x their median
Zimbabwean football supporters have welcomed the return of international football to home soil after the National Sports Stadium was granted Category 3 status by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), ending nearly five years of playing major fixtures away from home. https://t.co/WV5xeAE5bm
- Aug 23, 20264.5x their median
LIBERATION war veteran and former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) radio personality Cde Gray Nelson Gambiza Moyo has been laid to rest at his Mhangura plot in Mashonaland West, with family, fellow war veterans and friends remembering him as a dedicated cadre whose service to Zimbabwe extended well beyond independence. https://t.co/coem2U70Ut
- Aug 30, 20264.2x their median
YOUNG Women4ED will hold its second national convention at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on Monday, with President Dr Emmerson Mnangagwa expected to officiate at the gathering. https://t.co/HQOmOSnTwz https://t.co/LrQgA30Ub1
- Aug 22, 20264.0x their median
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Blessmore Kambuzuma is using music to navigate a life marked by Ichthyosis, blindness and hardship, turning his pain into songs of hope and ambition. https://t.co/Wux27sJ1DO https://t.co/Ekl3rr17Py
- Aug 22, 20263.8x their median
GOVERNMENT has commended the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) for its continued contribution to national development, particularly in health, education and agriculture. https://t.co/1HjioMK61f https://t.co/61DcCP7wsI
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 6 interactions against 789K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% of 3,899 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 2.9K times each, and 0.204% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.373% 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 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video and 60% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 71 interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cricket, #economicstability, #inflation.
- What is ZBC News's engagement rate on X?
- ZBC News (@ZBCNewsonline) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 80 original posts from the last 30 days against 788,979 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, ZBC News sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 @ZBCNewsonline have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @ZBCNewsonline post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.67 posts per day across the measured window.