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 60 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranked #14,250 (top 5%) among 483,944 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 9,912,573 followers as of August 2026 and 704,906 posts, and has been mentioned by 703 accounts a total of 1,857 times.
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