Zwelinzima Vavi engagement report
@Zwelinzima1 - 609K followers on X
Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 144 interactions against 609K followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 3,917 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 21K times each, and 0.687% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.44% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 12% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.9K interactions, about 34x its own typical post.
Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Zwelinzima Vavi's engagement rate beats 47% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 43% 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 0.024%, Zwelinzima Vavi sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
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 | 155.6% |
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 02:00 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 54K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 56K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 45K |
| 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% | 82K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 103K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 84K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 78K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 54K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 239K |
| Monday | 0% | 303K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 305K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 259K |
| Thursday | -2% | 251K |
| Friday | -3% | 260K |
| Saturday | +3% | 234K |
Best tweets
- Aug 23, 202634x their median
Let us celebrate 🥳 Advocate Adila Hassim SC has received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) as part of its 2026 Honorary Doctorate Celebration. The university recognised her for her deep commitment to constitutional rights, social justice, and human dignity. Notable aspects of her career include •Serving as an evidence leader in the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, a major probe into state corruption and criminality. #MadlangaCommission •Gaining international recognition for representing South Africa in its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). •Co founding SECTION27, a leading public interest law centre, and previously serving as its Director of Litigation. •Leading the legal efforts in the Life Esidimeni Arbitration that secured justice for the families of the 144 mental health patients who died in Gauteng.
- Aug 14, 202629x their median
Suliman Carrim and his legal team are disrespecting South Africa and the judiciary. https://t.co/epuCcQ6HoV
- Aug 18, 202622x their median
Meeting between March and Mach and AfriForum: I am looking forward to meeting with @JacintaNgobese-Zuma and her team from @MarchAndMarchSA today. @afriforum has a long history of engaging with fellow South Africans to build a better future. https://t.co/RgQGUATRjj
- Aug 19, 202614x their median
There is no such thing as a “university of the people who speak isiZulu” in the first place. Our universities are South African institutions, open to all South Africans regardless of language, ethnicity or province. What she is expressing is a dangerous desire to Balkanise South Africa along ethnic and linguistic lines - to turn our diversity into separate political and territorial enclaves. Colonialism and apartheid tried precisely this through segregation, Bantustans and the deliberate manipulation of ethnic identities to divide and rule. They failed to permanently fracture South Africa, and those attempting to revive the same poisonous politics of ethnic division will fail again. We must defend a united, non-racial and democratic South Africa in which isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Tshivenda, Afrikaans and every other language belong equally to all of us. No ethnic group owns a province, a university or any part of this country. South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We will not allow it to be Balkanised.
- Aug 21, 20266.1x their median
Chasing lizards when crocodiles are against you https://t.co/i7bLu3Nk7V
- Aug 19, 20265.9x their median
Why are you surprised? Learn from history! One thing that Blade Nzimande used to say is: before you jump on a bus, don't just look at the destination written, but also look at who is driving the bus https://t.co/LmvfUnHhzt
- Aug 14, 20265.8x their median
Do the ANC leadership ever listen to this as they, through Operation Vulindlela, privatise and involve the private sector in everything, be it Eskom, Transnet, harbours, etc. https://t.co/6n6ERfStem
- Jul 2, 20265.4x their median
Our future Minister of Finance @DumaGqubule Principled. Factual. Ideologically solid https://t.co/SOnff7Caoa
- Aug 15, 2026
https://t.co/MK2cu0FRhS
- Aug 22, 2026
REST IN PEACE, CHAMPION ZOLANI “LAST BORN” TETE This photograph and the videos I took take me back to 6 June 2016 at East London Airport. I happened to be at the airport when Zolani Tete arrived home from Liverpool, where, just two days earlier, he had defeated Mexico’s Victor Ruiz by a seventh-round TKO, successfully defending his IBF International bantamweight title. What has remained etched in my memory was not only the jubilant reception for a returning champion, but the deeply emotional moment when Zolani was reunited with his wheelchair-bound mother. Here was a son of Mdantsane who had conquered the boxing world, returning home with his championship belts and sharing that achievement with the mother who had witnessed the difficult journey from the beginning. Today, looking at this photograph is unbearably painful. Last night, 21 August 2026, Zolani “Last Born” Tete, only 38 years old, was brutally gunned down outside his home in Mdantsane. Reports indicate that he had arrived home and was waiting for his gate to open when armed assailants attacked him. What a cruel contradiction: a young man who survived countless rounds against some of the world’s finest boxers, who carried the hopes of Mdantsane and South Africa into boxing arenas across the world, was murdered while simply waiting to enter his own home. Zolani was no ordinary boxer. He rose from Mdantsane, one of the great nurseries of South African boxing, to become a two-weight world champion, holding the IBF junior-bantamweight world title and later the WBO bantamweight world title. He also entered boxing history with his extraordinary 11-second knockout of Siboniso Gonya, recognised as the fastest knockout in a world-title fight. His death is not only a devastating loss to his family and the boxing fraternity. It is another painful reminder of the violent crime that continues to rob our communities of lives, dreams and extraordinary talent. On behalf of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), we extend our profound and heartfelt condolences to Zolani’s family, his friends, his trainers and colleagues, the people of Mdantsane, the entire South African boxing fraternity and boxing fans across the world. We also wish the woman who was wounded in this horrific attack a full recovery. Police have opened a murder and attempted-murder investigation. I will remember that scene at East London Airport - the belts, the celebrations, the enormous smile of a champion who had returned home, and above all, that precious moment with his mother. Rest in peace, Zolani “Last Born” Tete. You made Mdantsane proud. You made the Eastern Cape proud. You made South Africa proud. Lala ngoxolo, Champion!
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 144 interactions against 609K followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 3,917 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 21K times each, and 0.687% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.44% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 12% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.9K interactions, about 34x its own typical post.
- What is Zwelinzima Vavi's engagement rate on X?
- Zwelinzima Vavi (@Zwelinzima1) has an engagement rate of 0.024%, based on the median interactions across 17 original posts from the last 30 days against 609,366 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.024%, Zwelinzima Vavi sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 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 @Zwelinzima1 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 47% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @Zwelinzima1 post?
- Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.47 posts per day across the measured window.