GitHub is an AI-powered developer platform and code hosting service that was co-founded by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, and Scott Chacon. GitHub's Twitter Score is 142 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #4,126 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
GitHub is affiliated with Microsoft, which acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock in 2018. Prior to the acquisition, GitHub had been backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, and IVP. GitHub also acquired npm, the JavaScript package manager, in March 2020.
GitHub is a central infrastructure layer for open-source and blockchain development, hosting tens of thousands of public repositories tagged with blockchain and cryptocurrency topics. GitHub has published 10,799 posts on the platform and has 2,699,805 followers as of August 2026. GitHub has been mentioned by 2,515 accounts, with 8,078 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow GitHub include 781 founders, 151 angel investors, 205 influencers and 31 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Toly, Joseph Lubin, CL, Jesse Powell and Tay.