Heroku is a container-based Platform as a Service co-founded by James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry that enables developers to deploy, manage, and scale applications. Heroku's Twitter Score is 16 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #59,594 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Heroku was founded in July 2007 and was acquired by Salesforce in December 2010, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary. The platform operates as a managed cloud environment supporting a broad range of application workloads, and has since expanded to support AI application development through managed inference, agents, model access, and MCP servers. On February 6, 2026, Heroku announced a shift to a sustaining-engineering model, with the platform remaining actively supported and production-ready with a focus on stability, security, and reliability.
Heroku maintains an Elements marketplace that includes third-party add-ons extending its capabilities, among them Absolute Labs, which provides blockchain-wallet and digital-asset data for applications built on the platform. Heroku has published 6,711 posts on the platform and has 102,045 followers as of August 2026. Heroku has been mentioned by 285 accounts, with 684 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Heroku include 102 founders, 21 angel investors, 11 influencers and 6 VCs, among them Brian Armstrong, Alexis Ohanian, Andrew Chen, Tobi Lutke, Matt Schlicht and Kayvon.