Nellie Bowles (@NellieBowles) — Twitter Score 113 out of 1000

Nellie Bowles is a journalist and co-founder of The Free Press, known for her technology and culture reporting and her weekly TGIF newsletter. Nellie Bowles's Twitter Score is 113 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #6,000 (top 5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.

Nellie Bowles co-founded The Free Press, an independent media outlet where she also writes the TGIF column. She is affiliated with Paramount Skydance. Previously, she worked at The New York Times as a tech reporter from 2017 to 2021, covering technology, culture, and cryptocurrency, including a piece on crypto communities relocating to Puerto Rico. Before that, she previously worked at The Guardian, Vice News, Recode, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Nellie Bowles was named in a defamation lawsuit filed by Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig over reporting on Jeffrey Epstein donations to MIT, which also named The New York Times; the lawsuit was later dropped after the headline and lede of the article were changed. Nellie Bowles's account has 96,290 followers as of September 2026 and has published 1,768 posts. She has been mentioned by 376 accounts, with 1,352 total mentions.

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