Lesotho Newspaper Social Media Rankings

This page tracks how many people follow Lesotho's newspapers on social media, month by month since October 2023, and ranks them every quarter. In the latest counts, taken in October 2026, Lesotho Tribune has the largest Facebook following at about 236,000, followed by Public Eye at about 183,000.

Latest counts: October 2026. Published ranking: Q3 2026. Counts are updated monthly and the ranking quarterly.

Next ranking: Q4 2026, published in early January 2027.

Rank over time

Each line follows one newspaper's place in the Facebook ranking from quarter to quarter. The current quarter is provisional until it is published.

Latest counts

Growth since October 2023

The shaded blue band marks October 2023 to September 2026, held in the Data Matrix archive; click it to request that data. Solid lines join counts taken in consecutive months, a dashed line bridges months between counts, and hollow markers are compiled or estimated figures.

What the numbers show

Lesotho Tribune has the largest Facebook following in the latest counts, about 236,000, which is about 53,000 more than Public Eye in second place.

Public Eye, Lesotho Times and The Post are within 3% of each other, so small monthly changes can reorder them. Their places in the ranking should be read as a near tie.

The top three titles hold 66% of the combined Facebook following of the 7 newspapers counted. Readers often follow more than one page, so the combined figure overstates the number of distinct people.

The Post has the longest like-for-like record on file: its Facebook following grew from 111,000 in December 2024 to 181,000 in October 2026, a rise of 63%, or about 31% a year.

Facebook is the main platform for every title counted. Lesotho Tribune is the only title with a TikTok following in the tens of thousands. YouTube audiences are small: the largest is Lesotho Tribune with about 2,000 subscribers.

Data Matrix has published these counts since 13 October 2023. Counts from October 2023 to September 2026 are held in our archive and are available to buy; the charts mark that period. Growth on this page is calculated only between counts taken the same way, so the first full quarter of comparable growth shown here is Q4 2026.

The published Q3 2026 ranking

Lesotho Tribune currently leads on the combination of Facebook scale and a notable TikTok presence, which no other newspaper on the list matches. Public Eye and The Post form the next clear tier. Below them, Lesotho Times sits close behind, with Maseru Metro, Informative, Sunday Express and Newsday making up the smaller tier.

For most of these titles, Facebook is the only platform with meaningful scale. YouTube is a weak spot across the group, and TikTok is growing but only Lesotho Tribune shows a following in the tens of thousands.

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Why this indicator matters

Lesotho's newspapers print small runs and do not publish audited circulation, so print sales cannot be compared across titles. Social media following is the most consistent public measure of how many people a title can reach, and the only one that can be checked by anyone, on any day.

For advertisers it shows where a message is likely to be seen. For government, NGOs and businesses it shows which titles carry information furthest. For newsrooms it is a benchmark against their peers. The trend matters more than any single count: a title adding followers month after month is building an audience, while one that stalls may be losing readers to newer digital outlets.

What it does not measure

• Followers are not readers. Many followers never see a given post, and many readers do not follow the page.
• It does not measure engagement, trust or accuracy.
• Audiences overlap. One person can follow several pages, so combined totals overstate the number of distinct people.
• Counts can be lifted by paid promotion, giveaways or page mergers, and they include inactive accounts.
• Platforms round large counts, for example 236K, so small differences between titles are within rounding.

Methodology and data availability

Release history

• 13 October 2026Moved to the new Data Matrix website. Monthly counts on five platforms, rank timeline, growth curves and heatmap added. The full October 2023 to September 2026 dataset is available from the Data Matrix archive.
• 19 August 2026Q3 2026 ranking published. Tribune leads, ahead of Public Eye and The Post.
• 13 October 2023First published by Data Matrix.

This page was prepared by Data Matrix analysts working with frontier AI tools, which helped gather archived counts and draft the text. Every figure was checked against its source and the text was reviewed by a person before publication. Charts: © Data Matrix, free to reuse with credit under CC BY 4.0.