Rat King is a technology reporter at The New York Times who covers the tech industry and authored Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, a nonfiction book about Uber. Rat King's Twitter Score is 214 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #2,065 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Rat King works at The New York Times, where his reporting has spanned major technology companies and their business battles. His crypto-adjacent coverage has included reporting on Facebook and Telegram cryptocurrency efforts as well as Facebook-backed Libra, the digital currency initiative that drew widespread regulatory and public scrutiny. Rat King's account has 191,604 followers as of August 2026 and 46,970 posts.
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