Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp Creator on X United States AI / LLM 1 to check
Not known. Estimate about $540 for one sponsored post.
Average impressions a post 2,738,823 Averaged across 12 posts, from X's own API. Read Sep 4, 2026. Latest post 13,888,077 impressions, Aug 29, 2026
Median impressions 582,743 The typical post. Budget against this one.
followers 271,070 From X's own API. Read Sep 4, 2026.
Last posted 8d ago Posts every day, across 12 recent posts. Read Sep 4, 2026.
Last 12 posts
Views per post, oldest to newest. Average 2,738,823.
What one sponsored post likely costs
Our estimate, not a quoteabout $540for one sponsored post
271,070 followers × $2 per 1,000 followers Sprout Social, 30 May 2024 ↗
271,070 followers x $2 per 1,000 followers as a rule of thumb (Sprout Social, 30 May 2024). This is our arithmetic on a published benchmark, not a quote from the creator.
| Post | Date | Views |
|---|---|---|
| Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to re | 13,888,077 | |
| Sam Altman suggested that OpenAI could reach $100B in revenue by 2027. Anthropic reportedly forecasted $70 billion in | 504,290 | |
| Microsoft makes software for humans doing work. Office and 365 generate ~$100B in revenue/year. I asked @satyanadella, | 242,033 | |
| .@satyanadella gave me and @dylan522p an exclusive tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful AI datacenter in the world. W | 1,896,016 | |
| Tomorrow https://t.co/cUUsJsMz42 | 661,195 | |
| Wanted to get better intuitions for how RL works on LLMs. So I wrote a simple script to teach Nanochat to add 5 digit | 409,697 | |
| The most interesting part for me is where @karpathy describes why LLMs aren't able to learn like humans. As you would | 1,052,271 | |
| The @karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible | 10,772,312 | |
| Tomorrow https://t.co/HSoMlXp2kY | 457,966 | |
| https://t.co/xh8pebJPM7 | 312,347 | |
| Does everyone secretly feel that if you went back you to college now, you could learn so much faster, better, and deeper | 2,255,202 | |
| Boy do you guys have a lot of thoughts about the @RichardSSutton interview. I’ve been thinking about it myself. I have | 414,468 |
Who sponsors Dwarkesh Patel?
No sponsorships have been documented yet. Nothing on record either way, so ask them directly.
What we checked, in full
20 checks, 15 passed, 1 to review
| ✓ | Metrics came from the platform | Every audience figure here is a value X's own API returned, never estimated or inferred. The price estimate is the one number we work out ourselves, and it is labelled and shows its arithmetic. | not published |
| ✓ | Enough recent posts to judge | 12 recent posts sampled (target 12). | not published |
| ✓ | Average impressions ≥ 20,000 | 2,738,823 average impressions, median 582,743, across 12 posts. | required |
| ✓ | Typical post also clears 20,000 | Median impressions 582,743 and outlier-trimmed mean 1,873,576 both clear the floor. A sponsored post should land in that range. | integrity |
| ✓ | Tech / dev / software engineering | 3 distinct dev signals in the bio and post text: software, llm, copilot. | required |
| ✓ | Not a gaming channel | No gaming signal in the text. X publishes no content category, so this is a text judgement. | required |
| ✓ | Not a hardware / gear channel | No hardware/gear pattern. | preference |
| ✓ | Target region (US / UK / EU / AU / NZ / SG) | United States (US), from the creator's self-entered location text. Self-reported by the creator, same as a platform country field. Shown with its confidence rather than treated as independently verified. | required |
| ✓ | Like rate ≥ 0.15% of impressions | 0.65% like rate, 0.029% comment rate, averaged per post. | integrity |
| ! | Average is not one viral outlier (X limit 15×) | Top post is 23.8× the median (13,888,077 vs 582,743 impressions), against a typical X spread well below 15×. The average is carried by one hit. Budget against the median, roughly 582,743 impressions, not the headline average. | integrity |
| ✓ | Comment volume matches the view counts | Median 196 comments against 4,451 median likes: a normal ratio. | integrity |
| ✓ | impressions plausible for the followers count | 2,738,823 average impressions against 271,070 followers (1010%). | integrity |
| ✓ | Posted recently | Last post 9 day(s) ago. | preference |
| ✓ | Publishes on a regular schedule | Median 1 day(s) between posts; the 12 sampled posts span 331 days. | preference |
| ✓ | Sampled posts are recent enough to compare | The 12 sampled posts span 331 days, close enough together that their impressions counts are comparable. | integrity |
| – | Same numbers from two endpoints of the same API | No post from this account appeared in both the search index and the profile feed, so there was nothing to cross-check. | not published |
| – | Verified against the platform's own published feed | X publishes no independent public feed to check the API's numbers against. YouTube is the only platform here where that second source exists. | not published |
| ✓ | An independent creator, not a company's own channel | x labels this a "Creator" account. | required |
| – | Same person confirmed on other platforms | No other public profile was linked from this account, so this record covers one platform only. | not published |
| – | Runs paid promotions (platform-declared) | Sponsorships shown for this creator are parsed from the text of their own post descriptions, so they are suspected rather than platform-confirmed. | not published |