DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. government body responsible for developing and preventing technological surprise in the service of national security. DARPA's Twitter Score is 44 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #20,792 (top 5%) among 486,573 tracked accounts.
DARPA operates under the U.S. Department of Defense and works alongside academic, industry, and government partners to pursue high-risk, high-reward research. Its work over the decades contributed to foundational technologies including the internet, GPS, and early mRNA vaccine research. DARPA has also engaged with digital-asset topics, having previously awarded a research contract to Inca Digital, a cryptocurrency market data provider, to study and map potential contagion risks within the cryptocurrency sector.
DARPA maintains an active presence on the platform with 7,874 posts. The account has been mentioned by 285 accounts, with 1,056 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow DARPA include 206 founders, 49 angel investors, 58 influencers and 9 VCs. Among them are Toly, Andrej Karpathy, Mario Nawfal, Cameron Winklevoss, Emin Gn Sirer and Joey Krug.