kusama (@kusamanetwork) — Twitter Score 131 out of 1000

Kusama is a scalable multi-chain canary network that serves as an experimental proving ground for early-stage Polkadot deployments, founded by Gavin Wood. Kusama's Twitter Score is 131 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #5,691 (top 5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.

Kusama functions as an earlier release of Polkadot code that holds real economic value, allowing developers to test runtime upgrades, on-chain governance, and parachains before they reach Polkadot. The network is backed by Web3 Foundation and is affiliated with Parity Technologies. Kusama started as a Proof-of-Authority network and transitioned to Proof-of-Stake on October 28, 2019, and per the Polkadot Wiki it has since grown to over 900 validators with over eight million blocks produced.

Kusama is owned by holders of KSM, its native token, which can be used for transaction fees, staking, governance, purchase of coretime, and other network functions. The network has no central kill switch, and all changes are made through on-chain governance. On June 15, 2021, the first public parachain slot auction on Kusama commenced. A trustless bridge also allows Polkadot Asset Hub to bridge wrapped KSM and Kusama Asset Hub to bridge wrapped DOT. The official Kusama site describes the network as focused on zero-knowledge and bleeding-edge technology, with 10 million DOT allocated for builders through a governance referendum.

Kusama has published 1,353 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 726 accounts, with 5,156 total mentions.

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The accounts that follow Kusama include 501 founders, 111 angel investors, 290 influencers and 80 VCs, among them Ansem, Chris Burniske, smolting wassie, verse, Cointelegraph, Mario Nawfal and Sandeep.