Web Summit engagement report
@WebSummit - 124K followers on X
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 7 interactions against 124K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 20,444 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 1.6K times each, and 0.45% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 144 interactions, about 21x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #websummitvancouver, #websummitrio.
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026. Recurring tags: #websummitvancouver, #websummitrio.
Compared with accounts its own size
Web Summit's engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 23% 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 0.006%, Web Summit sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 11:00 UTC, and Friday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 100% 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 297 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Jun 11, 202621x their median
Apple says it won't release its new Siri in the EU. The EU's most senior tech official has a message for them: nothing in our rules is blocking you. That's your own decision. "We don't want monopolies in the European markets." @HennaVirkkunen, EVP for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy at the @EU_Commission. #WebSummitRio
- Jul 1, 20268.3x their median
Can a content creator ever truly unplug in 2026? π We caught up with @hasanthehun at #WebSummitQatar to get his unfiltered takes on the future of the creator economy, whether AI can truly replace "Just Chatting," and if creators can ever actually unplug. Whatβs the one app you would delete forever? Let us know in the comments!
- Jul 3, 20262.3x their median
'Jobs going away' is the headline. 'Higher-value roles opening up' is the sentence that gets buried in paragraph four βοΈ At #WebSummitQatar, Justina Nixon-Saintil, Chief Impact Officer at IBM, challenged the apocalyptic narrative surrounding AI and job loss. Reflecting on data from IBM, she noted that while some roles naturally phase out, technology is actively opening doors to more meaningful and higher-value career opportunities. What new skills are you focusing on to stay ahead in this evolving tech landscape?
- Jun 15, 20262.1x their median
Goodbye Rio. Hello #WebSummit Lisbon π΅πΉ https://t.co/0X2mQ7zFiV
- Sep 11, 2026
Is nuclear fusion closer to reality than ever? β‘οΈ At #WebSummitVancouver, a panel of nuclear energy experts broke down the differences between fusion and fission, safety profiles and the ongoing research into these nuclear energy sources. Do you think nuclear energy is the future? π
- Jul 24, 2026
Corporate dictatorship vs. Democratic resurgence? ποΈ At #WebSummitVancouver, Curtis Yarvin and Ramesh Srinivasan clashed over the future of tech, governance, and power. Are we heading toward a Star Trek utopia or a dystopian corporate monarchy? Watch the full debate here π https://t.co/NS2J9h1cUl
- Jun 12, 2026
Let's give a round of applause to our incredible volunteers from #WebSummitRio π https://t.co/OzpPq3gaTe
- Sep 16, 2026
Remote work or back to office? π We gathered our attendees to get their answers on a This or That challenge at #WebSummitVancouver. Where do you stand on these? https://t.co/dPZzgemiS7
- Jul 6, 2026
Qatar, Vancouver, Rio: three cities, three continents, one half of 2026 π€© Where should we go next? https://t.co/F3r74u83fF
- Jun 22, 2026
Closing the tech gender gap, one #WebSummit at a time. π€ Did you know that across our global events this year so far, women-founded startups are taking centre stage? Here is a look at the numbers so far: π¨π¦ 44% of startups at #WebSummitVancouver were women-founded. π§π· 43% of startups at #WebSummitRio had female founders. πΆπ¦ 38% of startups at #WebSummitQatar were led by women. The future of tech is diverse, and weβre proud to champion the incredible female founders leading the charge!
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 7 interactions against 124K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 20,444 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 1.6K times each, and 0.45% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 144 interactions, about 21x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #websummitvancouver, #websummitrio.
- What is Web Summit's engagement rate on X?
- Web Summit (@WebSummit) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 9 original posts from the last 30 days against 123,533 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.006%, Web Summit sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 @WebSummit have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @WebSummit post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.3 posts per day across the measured window.