Lasizwe engagement report
@lasizwe - 1.7M followers on X
Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 705 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0.042%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 71% of 3,758 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 60K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.59% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 9.9x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sama32, #awkwarddatesza, #aoty.
Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #sama32, #awkwarddatesza, #aoty.
Compared with accounts its own size
Lasizwe's engagement rate beats 71% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 61% 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 0.042%, Lasizwe sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 16:00 UTC, and Thursday 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% | 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 9, 20269.9x their median
Shoutout to heterosexual men who are genuinely comfortable in their sexuality. Men who can exist around gay men without treating homosexuality like it’s contagious, or thinking that being seen with us somehow puts their own sexuality up for debate. And I think that’s part of what I want Awkward Dates to normalize: heterosexual men and homosexual men existing in the same space without either person having to perform a role. The gay guy doesn’t have to become the “gay bestie,” the handbag or the entertainment. And the straight guy doesn’t have to become defensive, hypermasculine or immediately assume, “he wants me.” Sometimes two men with different sexualities can literally just… vibe. Laugh. Talk shit. Respect each other. Exist. Because being comfortable around a gay man doesn’t make a straight man less straight. And being gay doesn’t mean we want every straight man we meet. Please. We have types too. 😭😂❤️
- Aug 13, 20266.1x their median
This is nothing to be ashamed of. Life is about peaks & troughs. If anything, you’re smart for knowing when to adjust before life forces you to. All the best!
- Aug 11, 202611x their median
I cannot put into words how I feel right now. 🥹❤️ Firstly, THANK YOU Vuyo Biyela for being sooooo COOL! You don’t understand what you’ve done, not just for me, but for a conversation I believe this country needed to see. THIS is why I created #AwkwardDatesZA . To entertain, yes. To make you laugh, absolutely. But also to create moments that challenge how we see each other and show that sometimes… we really can just coexist. And the response? INSANE. 130k views in the FIRST 24 Hours. YouTube records broken. 100k views per day (4 days later) But beyond the numbers, it’s the conversations that have moved me the most. (Swipe through this post and see for yourself.) This is bigger than a viral episode for me. This is impact. NOW THIS IS AWKWARD DATES! ❤️🔥
- Aug 15, 20269.8x their median
Going forward, I think award ceremonies should seriously consider one simple rule: no show, no award. If the recognition matters, showing up to receive it should matter too. #SAMA32
- Aug 15, 20268.6x their median
Like TYLA ke STAR bafethu! Like a GLOBAL SUPERSTAR from SOUTH AFRICA! 🇿🇦 #SAMA32
- Jul 24, 20264.5x their median
To have him on Awkward Dates🕯️…
- Aug 21, 20266.5x their median
Is fashion about to enter its gemstone era? https://t.co/LREBJPCEUw
- Aug 15, 20266.4x their median
Minister @GaytonMcK, we need to have a serious conversation about the state of South Africa’s arts and entertainment industry. What is happening? Our award shows are declining. The entertainment value is declining. Corporate investment seems to be disappearing. And yet South Africa has EVERYTHING it needs to produce world-class entertainment! Haibo we have the talent, creatives, performers, producers, technical skills and technology. We were supposed to be building an industry capable of becoming Africa’s Hollywood and competing on the global stage. As someone in the entertainment industry who grew up watching the SAMAs, it’s genuinely disappointing to see where we are today. With the amount of talent in this country, there is simply no reason our biggest productions shouldn’t look and feel world-class. So where is the investment? Have corporates stopped believing in the industry? Is funding not reaching the people actually creating the work? Where is the money going? I don’t think we’ve hit rock bottom, but this should be our turning point. Minister, we need you to step up. Bring government, broadcasters, corporates, artists, producers and creatives to the same table and figure out how we rebuild this industry. Because the talent is here. The skills are here. The ideas are here. We need the industry to match them. And at this point, please establish a Malanga Commission of Inquiry into the entertainment industry because haibo 😭😭😭 something is not connecting. #SAMA32
- Aug 26, 20266.0x their median
Guess who’s on Awkward Dates tomorrow? (Hint: he’s always fighting and shouting on some podcast. He knows a lot about the music industry in South Africa and when he was 4 years old he told his mom not to vote for Nelson Mandela ) https://t.co/cSS5J57FSE
- Aug 24, 20265.4x their median
The gay community saw Banele bagging brands and travelling, now everyone is rebranding 😭 Smokey Mirror is trying so hard to be like him. https://t.co/9yQ500rQ9O
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 705 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0.042%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 71% of 3,758 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 60K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.59% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 9.9x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sama32, #awkwarddatesza, #aoty.
- What is Lasizwe's engagement rate on X?
- Lasizwe (@lasizwe) has an engagement rate of 0.042%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,667,858 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.042%, Lasizwe sits above the 25th 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 @lasizwe have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 71% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @lasizwe post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 6.4 posts per day across the measured window.