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 42 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #25,380 (top 5%) among 531,432 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 2,417,207 followers as of July 2026 and 7,934 posts published to date. CERN has been mentioned by 247 accounts, with 1,008 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow CERN include 217 founders, 38 angel investors, 90 influencers and 7 VCs. Among them are Toly, Elon Musk, Alexis Ohanian, Tarun Chitra, Tay and DEGEN NEWS.