CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the intergovernmental laboratory that operates the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. CERN's Twitter Score is 45 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #20,613 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
CERN was founded in 1954 and today counts 25 Member States among its participants. Its laboratory is widely known as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, and its core mission centers on fundamental research into the building blocks of matter. The Large Hadron Collider, which first started up on 10 September 2008, is the flagship instrument of that work and remains the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built. CERN is also affiliated with major detector experiments including ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb, each designed to capture and analyze the results of high-energy particle collisions.
CERN maintains an active presence on this platform, with 2,416,892 followers as of September 2026 and 7,934 posts published to date. CERN has been mentioned by 255 accounts, with 1,018 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow CERN include 224 founders, 54 angel investors, 59 influencers and 5 VCs. Among them are Toly, Elon Musk, Tarun Chitra, Alexis Ohanian, Tay and Matthew Graham.