HuffPost (@HuffPost) — Twitter Score 59 out of 1000

HuffPost is a general-interest digital news outlet that was co-founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Jonah Peretti, and Andrew Breitbart and launched as The Huffington Post. HuffPost's Twitter Score is 59 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranked #14,758 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.

HuffPost was originally backed by Greycroft, SoftBank Capital, and Oak Investment Partners before AOL acquired it for $315 million in 2011. Ownership later passed to Verizon Media, which sold the outlet to BuzzFeed in an all-stock deal announced in 2020. Following the completion of that acquisition in 2021, BuzzFeed cut 47 HuffPost employees and shut down HuffPost Canada.

HuffPost covers a broad range of topics across politics, culture, and current events, and has published cryptocurrency-related reporting, though it is not a crypto-focused publication. The account has accumulated 9,900,873 followers as of October 2026 and 705,321 posts, and has been mentioned by 704 accounts a total of 1,861 times.

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The accounts that follow HuffPost include 278 founders, 74 angel investors, 91 influencers and 37 VCs, among them Anthony Pompliano, Tyler Winklevoss, Mike Novogratz, Mario Nawfal, Camila Russo and Emilie Choi.