Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) — Twitter Score 423 out of 1000

Nate Silver is a statistician and writer who founded FiveThirtyEight, the polling aggregation site that ABC/Disney shut down in March 2025. Nate Silver's Twitter Score is 423 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #542 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.

Nate Silver founded FiveThirtyEight in 2008 as a polling aggregation website and blog. He also founded Silver Bulletin, a newsletter covering polling, elections, public opinion, sports, games, media, tech, markets and AI, which launched paid subscriptions in September 2023. Per Axios, Nate Silver was hired as an adviser to Polymarket in July 2024, while continuing to author his newsletter. Polymarket is a cryptocurrency-based prediction market where participants can deposit USDC through the Polygon blockchain network and trade shares representing probabilities of future outcomes.

Nate Silver advises Polymarket, which per Axios had raised $70 million in venture capital since launching in 2020 and at that time accounted for more than 80% of global predictions made around U.S. elections. Polymarket previously settled charges with the CFTC, which on January 3, 2022 entered an order against Blockratize, Inc. doing business as Polymarket for offering off-exchange event-based binary options contracts and failure to obtain required regulatory designations; the settlement required Polymarket to pay a $1.4 million civil monetary penalty and cease and desist from the charged violations. Nate Silver has 3,028,969 followers as of July 2026 and has published 44,753 posts, and has been mentioned by 922 accounts a total of 3,823 times.

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