Daniel Pink engagement report
@DanielPink - 441K followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 43 interactions against 441K followers, an engagement rate of 0.01%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 3,882 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 12K times each, and 0.365% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.68% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 306 interactions, about 7.1x its own typical post.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Daniel Pink's engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 27% 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 0.01%, Daniel Pink sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 156.3% |
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 15:00 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Nov 12, 20247.1x 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
- Aug 24, 20266.2x 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.
- Aug 25, 20264.2x their median
We used to have search engines. Now we have answer engines. When answers get cheap, questions become priceless. Great thinkers don’t just deliver answers. They generate better questions. If the machine can finish the sentence, your job is to ask a better one.
- Aug 27, 20263.4x their median
Night owls are not undisciplined. Morning culture is just louder. About 15 percent of people are natural early risers. About 20 percent are night owls. That is biology, not character. Stop treating one body clock like a moral system.
- Aug 28, 20262.9x their median
Motivation is unreliable. Progress is not. Harvard diary research on workdays found the biggest daily boost was not cash or praise. It was visible progress on work that matters.
- Aug 28, 20262.9x their median
If you need a burst of motivation, the step is too big. Shrink it until it is boring. One paragraph. One call. One block of the day protected. Then mark that it happened. Action does not wait for the mood. The mood waits for proof.
- Aug 27, 20262.3x their median
We used to have search engines. Now we have answer engines. When answers get cheap, questions become priceless. The machine can finish the sentence. Your job is to ask a better one.
- Aug 28, 20262.1x their median
A to-do list is a wish. A calendar is a decision. If the important work has no hour, it will lose to whatever yells. Put the hard thinking in your peak. Put admin in the trough. Put a real break before the second half. Time management is not more tasks. It is better placement.
- Aug 28, 20262.1x their median
The afternoon is not just later. It is different. The brain gets noisier. The work feels heavier. Waiting for a motivation burst makes it worse. Do not solve the whole day. Take the 20-minute break. Then do the next small thing. Recovery first. Drive second.
- Aug 28, 20262.0x their median
“Motivate yourself” is bad advice. You do not install motivation in a person. You build the conditions, and it shows up. Pay fairly. Give some control. Make progress visible. Show who the work is for. Feeling is the output. Conditions are the input.
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 43 interactions against 441K followers, an engagement rate of 0.01%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 3,882 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 12K times each, and 0.365% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.68% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 306 interactions, about 7.1x its own typical post.
- What is Daniel Pink's engagement rate on X?
- Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) has an engagement rate of 0.01%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 440,664 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.01%, Daniel Pink sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 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 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.