Daniel Pink engagement report
@DanielPink - 442K followers on X
Measured over 48 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 82 interactions against 442K followers, an engagement rate of 0.019%. Measured over 48 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 20,444 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 13K times each, and 0.638% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.93% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 48 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 8% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.2K interactions, about 27x its own typical post.
Measured over 48 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Daniel Pink's engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 36% 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 0.019%, Daniel Pink sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 17:00 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% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 13% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 13% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 215 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Sep 3, 202627x their median
Four habits that train your mind to reduce negative thinking, if you're an overthinker. Yale psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema spent decades on rumination and found the trap: replaying a problem feels like solving it, and makes you worse at solving it. The habits: 🧵
- Sep 10, 202616x their median
A 20-minute exercise from Stanford that I'd put up against most career coaching. It's called the Odyssey Plan. Three five-year futures, on one page. 🧵
- Sep 8, 20268.7x their median
Two questions that persuade better than any argument. Yale psychologist Michael Pantalon calls them irrational. I first wrote about them in To Sell Is Human, and they still work on everyone, including me. 🧵
- Sep 10, 20267.6x their median
Three books I'd hand anyone who feels stuck. (After reading for 50 years)🧵
- Sep 8, 20266.3x their median
Harvard has been following the same group of men since 1938. Eighty-plus years of data on who thrives at 80. The number one predictor was not IQ, income, or fame. 🧵
- Sep 3, 20264.7x their median
I've read more productivity books than anyone you know. Strip away the packaging and they all teach the same six lessons. Thirty years of advice, one thread: https://t.co/lEaZ6J8miT
- Nov 12, 20243.8x their median
For the last 20+ years, I’ve been studying work, creativity, science, and the human condition. Over the next few months, I’ll be sharing the best of what I’ve learned about living a life that matters. Stay tuned! https://t.co/rymEYeGYg9
- Sep 4, 20263.6x their median
How to plan your day (for people in their 50s). I'm 61, so this one's personal: 1. Your body clock has drifted earlier since your 20s. Use it. 2. The midlife slump is real, and it lifts. 3. Say no faster. Your time horizon is the asset. 4. Take your breaks outside, with someone. 5. Quit books at 100 minus your age pages. The science: 🧵
- Aug 24, 20263.3x their median
The biggest daily motivator at work is not cash. It is not praise. It is visible progress on work that matters. Most workplaces are feedback deserts. You finish the day unsure whether you moved anything. So do not wait for the world to notice. At the end of the day, write down three things you advanced. Small is fine. Momentum is the point. You cannot install motivation. You can make progress visible enough that it returns tomorrow.
- Sep 11, 20263.0x their median
Psychologists have tracked what happens when people share their goals — two landmark studies, a decade apart. One way of sharing worked. The other backfired.
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 82 interactions against 442K followers, an engagement rate of 0.019%. Measured over 48 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 20,444 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 13K times each, and 0.638% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.93% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 48 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 8% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.2K interactions, about 27x its own typical post.
- What is Daniel Pink's engagement rate on X?
- Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) has an engagement rate of 0.019%, based on the median interactions across 48 original posts from the last 30 days against 441,674 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.019%, Daniel Pink sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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 @DanielPink have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @DanielPink post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.5 posts per day across the measured window.