Discord is the official X account of Discord Inc., a group-chat, voice, video, and community platform widely adopted by gaming and crypto communities. Discord's Twitter Score is 123 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #5,229 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Discord was co-founded by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who serves as CTO. The platform opened publicly in May 2015 and has since grown into one of the most widely used community infrastructure tools across gaming and Web3. Citron has since moved to the Board of Directors and serves as Advisor to the CEO, with Humam Sakhnini appointed as CEO. Discord has attracted backing from a broad set of institutional investors, including Coatue Management, Index Ventures, Greylock Partners, Dragoneer Investment Group, Baillie Gifford & Co, Fidelity Management & Research Co, Franklin Templeton, and Greenoaks Capital.
Discord's relationship with Web3 drew attention when Citron shared an internal mockup exploring potential MetaMask and WalletConnect integration as a hack-week project in November 2021. After significant user backlash, Discord stated it had no current plans to ship the proposed crypto-wallet feature, though it expressed continued interest in Web3. The account has published 496,739 posts and has been mentioned by 2,064 accounts a total of 4,140 times, reflecting its broad presence across crypto and tech conversations. Discord has 4,745,360 followers as of August 2026 on the platform.
Who follows Discord on X?
Discord draws a diverse audience of notable accounts. The accounts that follow Discord include 446 founders, 92 angel investors, 330 influencers and 26 VCs, among them Laura Shin, Stani, CL, Loomdart, Tyler Winklevoss and Cointelegraph.