Vanguard Newspapers engagement report
@vanguardngrnews - 4.9M followers on X
Measured over 550 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 15 interactions against 4.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 550 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,758 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 8.8K times each, and 0.171% 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 18.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% 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 550 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 88% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.8K interactions, about 121x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #osunelections, #osundecides2026, #osunelectionresults.
Measured over 550 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #osunelections, #osundecides2026, #osunelectionresults.
Compared with accounts its own size
Vanguard Newspapers's engagement rate beats 9% 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 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 under 0.001%, Vanguard Newspapers sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 | 0.432% |
| 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 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.
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 25, 2026121x their median
Support APC or leave Kuje – Council chairman Samuel Shekwolo warns residents https://t.co/gwn9tv19NR
- Aug 29, 2026111x their median
Two dead as machete-wielding man storms IMAX cinema in Lekki https://t.co/8hOLjgGHia https://t.co/GOQp42Wfyu
- Aug 24, 202688x their median
I bought over 50 ceiling fans, 40 standing fans, 50 orthopedic mattresses - where are they? - Moment Nasarrawa APC lawmaker reacts after discovering hospital allegedly sold his donated fans, mattresses Video Credit : Nasarrawa Mirror // TikTok https://t.co/iCBE84dsc6
- Aug 17, 202673x their median
“South East must vote for president Tinubu in 2027. South East should know that our votes alone can't make our brother His Excellency Peter Obi a President” - Minister Of Work, David Umahi Video Credit : News Century // YouTube https://t.co/4NeuZiNvOY
- Aug 31, 202666x their median
‘Remember us, the politicians, in your prayers; we’re the problem of this country. There is nothing wrong with Nigeria, only bad leadership’ — NDC Presidential Candidate Peter Obi https://t.co/IVYQqIMMYn
- Aug 22, 202662x their median
2027 ’ll be fight between Nigerians and oppressors — Kwankwaso https://t.co/GeD5G3bmCL https://t.co/syQSMhb3XX
- Aug 31, 202642x their median
More VDMs will emerge if judiciary is not fixed — Farotimi https://t.co/Ytjmv2tI8c https://t.co/a2G9tzECsj
- Aug 26, 202641x their median
‘Bring your evidence’: Atiku dares Tinubu over $16bn power allegation https://t.co/TZzoukrikb https://t.co/RhOvCyjzPS
- Aug 17, 202640x their median
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo pays a surprise congratulatory visit to Governor Ademole Adeleke following his victory in Saturday's governorship election. https://t.co/C6Ny4RjSkT
- Aug 18, 202638x their median
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome unveils Christ Embassy Electric Cars at NEU 2026 PraiseWorld Radio // IG https://t.co/p2dsSPbUCP
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 15 interactions against 4.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 550 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,758 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 8.8K times each, and 0.171% 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 18.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% 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 550 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 88% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.8K interactions, about 121x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #osunelections, #osundecides2026, #osunelectionresults.
- What is Vanguard Newspapers's engagement rate on X?
- Vanguard Newspapers (@vanguardngrnews) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 550 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,944,788 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Vanguard Newspapers sits below the 10th 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 @vanguardngrnews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @vanguardngrnews post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 18.33 posts per day across the measured window.