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 146 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #4,662 (top 5%) among 389,587 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 10,669 posts on the platform and has 2,681,174 followers as of July 2026. GitHub has been mentioned by 2,217 accounts, with 7,601 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow GitHub include 686 founders, 104 angel investors, 253 influencers and 38 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Toly, Joseph Lubin, CL, Jesse Powell and Mario Nawfal.