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Emmett Shear (@eshear) — Twitter Score 284 out of 1000
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284Ranked #1,189 of 493,668 crypto accounts tracked by TwitterScore.io
Ansem 🐂🀄️
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Sam Altman
Erik Voorhees
Kyle Samani
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About Emmett Shear's Twitter Score
Emmett Shear is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Twitch and currently serves as CEO of Softmax. Emmett Shear's Twitter Score is 284 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #1,189 (top 0.5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Emmett Shear co-founded Twitch, the live-streaming platform that raised $15 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Alsop Louie Partners, and Draper Associates in 2012 before Amazon acquired it for $970 million in 2014. He also co-founded Justin.tv, the predecessor platform from which Twitch emerged. Emmett Shear previously served as a part-time partner at Y Combinator.
Emmett Shear was appointed interim CEO of OpenAI in November 2023 following Sam Altman's ouster, a role he held briefly before departing. He has since co-founded Softmax, which describes itself as an independent research lab building a massively multiplayer benchmark for social intelligence.
Emmett Shear has 122,782 followers as of October 2026 on the platform and has published 48,982 posts. Emmett Shear has been mentioned by 158 accounts a total of 1,608 times.
Who follows Emmett Shear on X?
The accounts that follow Emmett Shear include 1,329 founders, 371 angel investors, 242 influencers and 8 VCs. Among them are Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, Toly, Ansem, Erik Voorhees and Kyle Samani.
