David Pearce engagement report
@webmasterdave - 117K followers on X
Measured over 4 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 7, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 4 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 62 interactions against 117K followers, an engagement rate of 0.054%. Posts are seen about 4.4K times each, and 1.42% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 4 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 36x its own typical post. Only 4 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 4 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 7, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.054%, David Pearce sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,782 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.679% |
| 90th percentile | 2.56% |
| 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 00:00 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% | 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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 0% 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.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 163 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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
- Jan 2, 201836x their median
Timeless truths that will echo down the ages? Or webmasterdave’s contribution to the library of Babel? Alas, I can guess... But Happy 2018! #happiness #transhumanism #physics #ai #philosophy https://t.co/HBtNoTKDQP https://t.co/YEimyirRCJ
- Jan 5, 20244.5x their median
This post from @webmasterdave is still legendary Context: Eliezer sets out his theory of consciousness in a Facebook post, followed by a debate in the comments about animal consciousness. It's like the Super Bowl. https://t.co/PNCkrDDoQq
- Sep 24, 20242.4x their median
The first academic paper specifically on turning predators into herbivores https://t.co/Ys20jYuUwS
- Jul 27, 20232.3x their median
Is suffering truly an unavoidable aspect of life, or can we create a world devoid of it? For as long as we have lived, humanity has always accepted suffering as part of the human condition. Entire dogmas and philosophies have been built on this belief. Literature itself, and the concept of catharsis, hinge on the experiences and lessons learned from human suffering. But what if we could finally bring about a paradigm shift? What if we could finally eliminate suffering for not just humans, but all sentient life? This is the point explored by my guest on this episode of HYPERSCALE: David Pearce, the renowned philosopher and co-founder of Humanity+, who published multiple works over the past two decades on the “hedonistic imperative,” which he describes as a moral obligation to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His work as a transhumanist is aimed at creating a Triple-S civilization: one that supports Super Longevity, Super Intelligence, and Super Happiness. This will be possible through breakthroughs in technology, where pharmacology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and neurosurgery could evolve human existence as we know it. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with David, who walked me through many of the ways humanity will evolve in the not-so-distant future with the support of biotech. ❗Listen to #E25 of HYPERSCALE, here: https://t.co/dc9v2mFQb1 ▶ Also available on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify and Google Podcasts
- Sep 8, 20261.5x their median
If what philosophers call the intrinsic nature argument is sound, then the Hard Problem of consciousness is an artefact of bad metaphysics. https://t.co/RAcAwylbHV Naively, consciousness fundamentalism is the recipe for digital minds. But our (super)intelligent AIs are no more conscious than a rock. Humans are creating alien (super)intelligence, not alien sentience.
- Dec 26, 20251.5x their median
“The world’s last unpleasant experience will be a precisely dateable event a few centuries from now.” - David Pearce https://t.co/0dhn6Yay7q
- Sep 25, 2026
Can we create machine superintelligence with Buddhist values? https://t.co/RbhmjCtrtk
- May 4, 2026
“Why is there something rather than nothing?” goes the famous question. But David Pearce argues that the answer may be that there is precisely nothing. | https://t.co/NC3FXra7d0 Because amplitudes in quantum mechanics are complex numbers, summing two amplitudes can yield zero.
- May 13, 2025
Read @webmasterdave 's excellent answers to my questions on the foundations of morality, consciousness, and the hedonistic imperative through the following link: https://t.co/nJbUYzGfgW
- Oct 2, 2025
David Pearce's essay 'Reprogramming Predators' - a clearheaded look at the immense moral significance of wild animal suffering. I've always found it astonishing how this view is so widely ignored/condemned. It seems so beautifully reasonable! Link: https://t.co/Vf0IQHnSVS https://t.co/yM65BxGAU9
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 62 interactions against 117K followers, an engagement rate of 0.054%. Posts are seen about 4.4K times each, and 1.42% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 4 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 36x its own typical post. Only 4 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is David Pearce's engagement rate on X?
- David Pearce (@webmasterdave) has an engagement rate of 0.054%, based on the median interactions across 4 original posts from the last 30 days against 116,759 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.054%, David Pearce sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,782 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 @webmasterdave have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @webmasterdave post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.