Kiwi News (@KiwiNewsHQ) — Twitter Score 21 out of 1000

Kiwi News is an open-source, decentralized news and content-discovery project that serves as a community-curated alternative to Hacker News, focused on Ethereum technology, products and culture. Kiwi News's Twitter Score is 21 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #47,298 (top 10%) among 484,207 tracked accounts.

Kiwi News was co-founded by Tim Daubenschütz and Mac Budkowski, and grew out of the Zeitgeist.xyz accelerator. The project stores its data through an open peer-to-peer protocol, meaning third parties can fork the software or build alternative clients on top of it. Community access is gated through a Kiwipass NFT, which serves as an allowlist credential for participants.

Kiwi News publishes a newly curated link every four hours, with each selection handpicked by its community. As of June 2025, the platform had accumulated more than 15,000 curated links, over 6,000 comments, and more than 1,000 monthly active users. Kiwi News has 2,484 posts on the platform and has been active since 2023.

Kiwi News has received backing from Optimism Retroactive Public Goods Funding, libp2p RPF, Farcaster, Purple, and Gitcoin. Kiwi News has been mentioned by 33 accounts, with 174 total mentions.

Who follows Kiwi News on X?

The accounts that follow Kiwi News include 65 founders, 21 angel investors and 30 influencers, among them Stani, Alon, gabrielShapir0, 0xMaki, mikedemarais.eth and DEGEN NEWS.