Steve Silberman

@stevesilberman · San Francisco · joined 06 Jan 2009

Author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, a NYT bestseller. The Taste of Salt, a history of cystic fibrosis, coming 2025.

119 759Followers

9 741Following

182 666Posts total

305.7KViews on collected posts

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Steve Silberman@stevesilberman30 Aug 2025

@stevesilberman https://t.co/Q9xEdkjwmj 106 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman19 Sep 2024

@stevesilberman This you ? You idiot, Indigenous people were here before your white ass stole their land. https://t.co/UTI982udZL 87 views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman31 Aug 2024

@stevesilberman Womp Womp https://t.co/aRVRkqp2gw 199 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman30 Jul 2024

Thanks, Julie. I won't explain on X, which promotes antivax liars, but my book #NeuroTribes explains this history in depth. 65.7K views · 187 likes · 28 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman30 Jul 2024

As an autism mom from the 90s, I questioned vaccines when they contained mercury. That ingredient has been removed, autism numbers have not decreased, & science tends to disprove a link. @stevesilberman can explain better than I why conspiracy theories took off back then. 1/2 64.7K views · 37 likes · 9 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman28 Jul 2024

@stevesilberman @thedavidcrosby I haven’t forgotten. Have you? https://t.co/BTgOVPPJSq 2.4K views · 16 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman28 Jul 2024

[2/2] ...how heartbroken he was about the GOP and the sale of his beloved Twitter to "lunatic" Elon Musk, as he put it. “I’d be very happy with [Elizabeth] Warren or [Kamala] Harris…it is time for a woman to be president” - David Crosby, Twitter, 8/4/19 via IG: @morningfalling 24.3K views · 683 likes · 68 reposts · 33 replies Open on X →

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman28 Jul 2024

[1/2] I rarely post in this cesspool of disinformation anymore, but my late friend @thedavidcrosby would've been thrilled about the rise of Kamala. David was one of the most patriotic people I've ever known -- he loved America deeply. Before David died, he made clear to me... htt 134.1K views · 1.2K likes · 161 reposts · 49 replies Open on X →

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman15 Jul 2024

@gtra1n Nice Bandcamp post on the Beats, thanks. Just one slight miss: Kerouac didn't gloss "beat" as "beatific" because he was "an aspiring Buddhist," but because he was a lifelong Catholic. (I was Ginsberg's teaching assistant.) 834 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman11 Jul 2024

LOL-in-horror moments of new @nytimes puff piece: Reporter dutifully reciting Elon Musk's BS about buying Twitter to "test how a citizen-led government that rules by consensus might work on Mars," and not realizing "selective breeding" is Nazi eugenics. https://t.co/bsxJCOTcho 13.3K views · 81 likes · 30 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Steve Silberman@stevesilberman21 Sep 2022

Terry Gross of @nprfreshair is the best interviewer in the business. The transcript of my 2015 interview with Terry about my history of #autism and #neurodiversity, #NeuroTribes, is archived here. It was an honor to talk to her. https://t.co/hMK4nhvaRY 0 views · 907 likes · 202 reposts · 66 replies Open on X →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

13.3K11 Jul

83415 Jul

134.1K28 Jul

24.3K

2.4K

64.7K30 Jul

65.7K

19931 Aug

8719 Sep

10630 Aug

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.89%11 Jul

1.08%15 Jul

1.07%28 Jul

3.23%

0.95%

0.08%30 Jul

0.36%

1.01%31 Aug

1.15%19 Sep

0.00%30 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes81.3%2 229 in total

Reposts11.0%301 in total

Replies4.4%120 in total

Quotes0.7%19 in total

Bookmarks2.6%72 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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