Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft and a philanthropist who co-founded the Gates Foundation, where he serves as Chair and Board Member, and also founded Breakthrough Energy and co-founded The Giving Pledge. Bill Gates's Twitter Score is 451 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, placing him at rank #434 (top 0.1%) out of 493,668 accounts tracked, with 65,258,363 followers as of October 2026 and 4,521 posts published.
Bill Gates has been a consistent public critic of cryptocurrency and digital assets. In a 2018 Reddit AMA, he criticized cryptocurrency anonymity, arguing it can enable money laundering, tax evasion, terrorist funding, and purchases of fentanyl, and called the speculative wave around ICOs and cryptocurrencies "super risky" for buyers. During a TechCrunch talk reported on June 15, 2022, he described cryptocurrency and NFTs as based on the "greater fool theory," stating he is neither long nor short on crypto. On July 15, 2020, his account was among prominent Twitter accounts compromised in a Bitcoin scam, with one linked wallet reportedly receiving more than $100,000 equivalent.
Bill Gates, through Gates Ventures, pursues work across climate change and clean energy innovation, Alzheimer's research and other healthcare issues, interdisciplinary education, and technology. In 2025, he announced plans to donate approximately US$200 billion over the next two decades, with the Gates Foundation set to close at the end of 2045. He has been mentioned by 2,175 accounts, with 8,232 total mentions recorded on the platform.
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