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David Marcus (@davidmarcus) — Twitter Score 523 out of 1000
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About David Marcus' Twitter Score
David Marcus is the CEO and co-founder of Lightspark, a company building an open Money Grid on Bitcoin and Spark. David Marcus's Twitter Score is 523 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #304 (top 0.1%) among 389,587 rated accounts. He has 196,676 followers as of July 2026 and 8,701 posts on X since 2007.
David Marcus co-founded Zong, a mobile payments company, serving as its CEO until it was acquired by PayPal in 2011, after which he became a vice president and later president of PayPal. He previously worked at Facebook Messenger and later at Meta, where he headed Meta's financial services division. He also co-founded Libra, Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency project, and in July 2019 testified before Congress on it, stating Facebook would not launch it until regulatory concerns were addressed and regulatory approvals obtained. He previously served on the board of Coinbase, departing in August 2018 to avoid a potential conflict of interest as he began leading Facebook's blockchain and crypto strategy. Libra was rebranded to Diem in December 2020; the Diem Association, of which he was a board member, shut down in January 2022 and sold the project to Silvergate Bank.
David Marcus leads Lightspark as CEO, with the company providing enterprise-grade Lightning Network infrastructure including automated node deployment, routing tools, SDKs, and APIs for Bitcoin payments integration. Lightspark received financing led by a16z and Paradigm Operations. In February 2026, Business Insider reported that he publicly criticized PayPal's product direction in posts on X and LinkedIn.
David Marcus is mentioned by 570 accounts across 1,649 total mentions on this platform.
David Marcus's tracked portfolio includes Roxom.
Who follows David Marcus on X?
The accounts that follow David Marcus include 2,022 founders, 440 angel investors, 663 influencers and 75 VCs, among them Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Erik Voorhees and Laura Shin.
