Eyewitness News engagement report
@ewnupdates - 1.7M followers on X
Measured over 352 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 352 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,791 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 3.0K times each, and 0.135% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.178% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 11.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 352 posts sampled, 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 273x its own typical post.
Measured over 352 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Eyewitness News's engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 under 0.001%, Eyewitness News sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 04:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 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% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 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% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 31, 2026273x their median
Malema has run out of legal options after Parliament’s Ethics Committee found that his questioning of the judge on a personal case at the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was out of line. https://t.co/HdKSz2D9px
- Aug 23, 202679x their median
Calls for those behind withdrawn charges against Crime Intelligence officers to face law https://t.co/tkNBZveVJB
- Sep 1, 202677x their median
Writer and scholar Jonny Steinberg believes Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma could emerge as the leader of a new kind of Black right-wing politics in South Africa, one increasingly detached from the traditional political narratives of the liberation struggle. https://t.co/gCrjc7PNgO
- Aug 24, 202675x their median
EFF pushes for strict parliamentary action against DA's Mark Burke https://t.co/Erie7cZoV8
- Aug 23, 202655x their median
Ramaphosa says ANC has done well in transforming lives of black South Africans https://t.co/g98ekHBXyt
- Aug 26, 202652x their median
Two companies allegedly inflated costs for student accommodation by a combined R3.3 million. https://t.co/j6CI4BcdXG
- Aug 19, 202645x their median
Just a day after closing ranks around MP Mark Burke, the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Parliament has decided to remove him from serving on Parliament’s finance committees. https://t.co/KpdAWAauDy
- Aug 23, 202642x their median
Five years since Gauteng Health whistleblower Babita Deokaran's assassination https://t.co/g76bYBtvqO
- Aug 24, 202638x their median
Transnet puts iconic Carlton Centre and 14 other properties on the market. https://t.co/u8kpfxhoVi
- Aug 18, 202635x their median
NPA to formally drop charges against crime boss Khumalo and co-accused https://t.co/C7BiMd5df3
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 4 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 352 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,791 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 3.0K times each, and 0.135% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.178% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 11.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 352 posts sampled, 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 273x its own typical post.
- What is Eyewitness News's engagement rate on X?
- Eyewitness News (@ewnupdates) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 352 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,669,882 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Eyewitness News sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @ewnupdates have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 @ewnupdates post?
- Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 11.73 posts per day across the measured window.