Barstool Sports is a sports, lifestyle, and entertainment media company founded by Dave Portnoy, who serves as its Founder and Chief of Content. Barstool Sports's Twitter Score is 110 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #6,208 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Barstool Sports was previously backed by The Chernin Group and, later, by PENN Entertainment. PENN Entertainment completed a full acquisition of Barstool Sports on February 17, 2023, having first taken a 36% stake in February 2020. On August 8, 2023, PENN sold 100% of Barstool Sports's outstanding shares back to Dave Portnoy while simultaneously rebranding its online sports-betting operation from Barstool Sportsbook to ESPN BET.
Barstool Sports has expanded into crypto and digital collectibles, maintaining dedicated topic pages covering cryptocurrency and NFTs, and published a launch announcement for Pardon My Take 2016 Edition NFTs on December 1, 2021. The account has 6,965,421 followers as of August 2026 and 208,980 posts on X, and has been mentioned by 474 accounts a total of 1,776 times.
Who follows Barstool Sports on X?
The accounts that follow Barstool Sports include 361 founders, 73 angel investors, 262 influencers and 6 VCs, among them Ansem, Anthony Pompliano, SBF, Vance Spencer, Tyler Winklevoss and Mike Novogratz.