Steve Kirsch ✓

@stkirsch · Los Altos Hills, CA · joined 03 May 2009

Investigative journalist. Authored over 1,800 articles on vaccine safety on my Substack. Former high tech serial entrepreneur. Founder, VSRF.

633 528Followers

788Following

33 731Posts total

3.3MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views15 853this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.50%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %2.85%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	15 853	21 891	0.72×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.50%	6.81%	0.37×
Engagement rate	2.85%	1.14%	2.50×

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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

3.1M9 Mar

69.6K31 Aug

9.3K1 Sep

27.3K2 Sep

28.3K

10.5K

9.2K3 Sep

15.9K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.29%9 Mar

2.85%31 Aug

0.12%1 Sep

11.15%2 Sep

3.33%

1.22%

1.16%3 Sep

3.52%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes67.4%11 118 in total

Reposts16.3%2 694 in total

Replies11.4%1 887 in total

Quotes0.8%132 in total

Bookmarks4.0%655 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.

Latest posts

Doctors will tell you tetanus is horrible. They neglect to tell you that the vaccine is too. Read this story. 15.9K views · 447 likes · 96 reposts · 14 replies 03 Sep 2026 Just say no https://t.co/3z7EdbIg1J 9.2K views · 83 likes · 12 reposts · 11 replies 03 Sep 2026 Dan Olmsted never NAMED the source. Nor did Olmsted *verify* his claims. So The Real Truther is misleading people yet again. And it's funny how they put 100% credibility on unverified claims from unnamed sources, isn't it? It's the typical "double standard" where to show 10.5K views · 102 likes · 18 reposts · 7 replies 02 Sep 2026 She was healthy. A scraped knee. A tetanus shot. Within minutes: anaphylactic shock. Within weeks: her immune system turned on itself. Within years: she lost her colon, endured seven surgeries, and was told she'd never have children. She had a son anyway. Then a court took him. A 28.3K views · 645 likes · 256 reposts · 26 replies 02 Sep 2026 0 autism in 330 years in unvaxxed Amish kids. No verified counter examples. 27.3K views · 2.4K likes · 556 reposts · 42 replies 02 Sep 2026 @stkirsch NOBODY disputes unvaccinated amish get autism. Even anti-vaxxers who falsely believe vaccines cause autism have admitted this! Are you admitting you can't name ONE amish vaccinated with autism? https://t.co/FxRVik4Pu2 https://t.co/4NnCeIOtMZ 9.3K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies 01 Sep 2026 🚨Trump’s Amish autism post is lighting up X today — cheers on one side, reflexive “fact-checks” on the other. But everyone is missing the actual story. The Amish have among the lowest vaccination rates AND the lowest autism rates in the U.S. Both facts are on the peer-reviewed 69.6K views · 1.5K likes · 438 reposts · 60 replies 31 Aug 2026 If you need to contact me about anything (interview request, fact check request, ask a question, let me know about something, want to debate me, found an error, etc), here's how to contact me: https://t.co/UPldNjBKry 3.1M views · 5.9K likes · 1.3K reposts · 1.7K replies 09 Mar 2023