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 246 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,764 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 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 191,129 followers as of July 2026 and 46,223 posts.
Rat King has been mentioned by 721 accounts a total of 4,650 times.
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