Gil Elbaz (@gilelbaz) — Twitter Score 28 out of 1000

Gil Elbaz is a technology entrepreneur and data-platform founder who co-founded Applied Semantics, the company whose contextual-advertising technology became the foundation of Google AdSense before Google acquired it in 2003. Gil Elbaz's Twitter Score is 28 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #34,704 (top 10%) among 493,952 tracked accounts.

Gil Elbaz founded Factual, a location-data platform that merged with Foursquare in 2020, after which he served as Co-Executive Chairman of the combined company before transitioning to his current role as Co-Chairman on its board. He also previously worked at Google as Director of Engineering. Beyond Foursquare, Gil Elbaz sits on the board of the XPRIZE Foundation and co-founded TenOneTen Ventures, where he is a Partner.

Gil Elbaz founded the Common Crawl Foundation, a nonprofit that maintains an open repository of web data that has served as training material for major AI systems. OpenAI's GPT-3 paper identified filtered Common Crawl data as the source of the majority of its training tokens, and the dataset has also underpinned models including Stable Diffusion and DALL-E. Gil Elbaz's account has 5,399 followers as of October 2026 and 604 posts, and has been mentioned by 57 accounts a total of 143 times.

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The accounts that follow Gil Elbaz include 132 founders, 38 angel investors, 10 influencers and 10 VCs, among them Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Tay, Jason, Elad Gil and Andrew Chen.