Skype was an internet communications service offering messaging, voice calling, and video calling that Microsoft retired for consumer users on May 5, 2025. Skype's Twitter Score is 10 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #89,843 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Skype was founded in 2003, building an early internet-based platform for messaging and audio and video calls. Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion in cash from an investor group led by Silver Lake, per the May 10, 2011 announcement. The service was previously affiliated with Microsoft until its consumer retirement, which affected free and paid users though left Skype for Business untouched.
Skype has published 232,135 posts on the platform and has 3,781,460 followers as of September 2026. Skype has been mentioned by 507 accounts, with 1,236 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Skype include 63 founders, 17 angel investors, 17 influencers and 11 VCs. Among them are Alex Atallah, Julien B, Alistair Milne, Kara Swisher, Kim-Mai Cutler and Gabor Gurbacs.