Microsoft Research is the science and technology research organization of Microsoft, founded by Richard (Rick) Rashid to advance fundamental and applied research across computing disciplines. Microsoft Research's Twitter Score is 43 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #21,634 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Microsoft Research has produced a range of contributions to blockchain and distributed-systems research. Among these is a framework for training machine learning models on public blockchains, demonstrated using Ethereum smart contracts under the banner of Decentralized and Collaborative AI on Blockchain. The organization also developed the Confidential Consortium Framework, a distributed-ledger framework that underpins Azure Confidential Ledger. In addition, Microsoft Research has published research on improving Ethereum execution performance through a technique called Forerunner.
Microsoft Research maintains 554,829 followers as of September 2026 on the platform and has published 10,177 posts. Microsoft Research's portfolio includes Data & Society. Microsoft Research has been mentioned by 182 accounts, with 466 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Microsoft Research include 204 founders, 35 angel investors, 52 influencers and 6 VCs. Among the most prominent followers are Andrej Karpathy, David Sacks, Vance Spencer, Mario Nawfal, Matthew Graham and Zmanian.