Ben Rubin (@benrbn) — Twitter Score 166 out of 1000

Ben Rubin is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder who builds decentralized communication tools, most recently as co-founder of Here Not There Labs and builder of Towns Protocol. Ben Rubin's Twitter Score is 166 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #3,176 (top 1%) among 484,399 tracked accounts.

Ben Rubin co-founded Here Not There Labs alongside Brian Meek, which raised a $25 million Series A in 2023 led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company launched Towns Protocol on October 15, 2024 as its first offering. Towns Protocol is an open-source protocol for building decentralized real-time messaging applications, featuring an EVM-compatible L2 chain, decentralized off-chain stream nodes, and smart contracts deployed on Base. The $TOWNS token is used to secure communication on the Towns network, with staking helping govern messaging capacity and offering the ability to earn yield.

Ben Rubin also co-founded Life on Air as CEO, the company behind the social video app Houseparty, which was sold to Epic Games in 2019 for a reported $35 million. Epic Games discontinued Houseparty in October 2021 after announcing it would shut down the service. Prior to Houseparty, Ben Rubin was previously affiliated with Meerkat, the live-streaming app that was shut down in October 2016 and replaced by Houseparty.

Ben Rubin has 51,896 followers as of August 2026 on X and has published 6,993 posts. Ben Rubin has been mentioned by 164 accounts a total of 423 times.

Ben Rubin's portfolio includes Livepeer.

Who follows Ben Rubin on X?

The accounts that follow Ben Rubin include 583 founders, 182 angel investors, 106 influencers and 13 VCs. Among them are Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Nikita Bier, jesse.base.eth, Kyle Samani and CoinDesk.