FT Alphaville (@FTAlphaville) — Twitter Score 50 out of 1000

FT Alphaville is a financial markets blog operated by the Financial Times that covers market structure, macroeconomics, fraud, mergers and acquisitions, and financial plumbing for a professional audience. FT Alphaville's Twitter Score is 50 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #18,125 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.

FT Alphaville was founded by Paul Murphy as its founding editor and launched in 2006 as a free daily news and commentary service aimed at financial market professionals. It works at Financial Times and remains an active publication, with new posts appearing through mid-2026. Beyond its core blog on FT.com, FT Alphaville extended its reach with a free weekly Substack newsletter.

FT Alphaville has engaged with crypto markets as a recurring subject of coverage, maintaining a notably skeptical editorial stance. In December 2024, it published a piece titled "Hodlers: an apology," acknowledging that its writers, current and former, had been skeptical of crypto and bitcoin specifically, while standing by that prior coverage. Its 2024 crypto output also included analysis of MicroStrategy, bitcoin prediction frameworks, and event programming such as a pub quiz round touching on Tether, 3AC, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Satoshi Nakamoto. In February 2025, FT Alphaville published a Q&A with Anthony Scaramucci at the Digital Assets Forum in London, covering institutional adoption, custody, memecoins, and lessons from the FTX collapse.

FT Alphaville has 124,431 followers as of September 2026 on X and has published 42,262 posts. The account has been mentioned by 254 accounts, with 1,463 total mentions.

Who follows FT Alphaville on X?

The accounts that follow FT Alphaville include 176 founders, 43 angel investors, 87 influencers and 12 VCs. Among them are Hasu, Raoul Pal, Frank Chaparro, Arthur, Db and Vance Spencer.