Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) — Twitter Score 197 out of 1000

Niall Ferguson is a historian and financial-history author who serves as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and an advisor to Ampleforth Protocol. Niall Ferguson's Twitter Score is 197 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #2,377 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.

Niall Ferguson is best known for his work on financial and economic history, including as the author of The Ascent of Money. He works at the Hoover Institution as Milbank Family Senior Fellow and is a senior faculty fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He also writes as a columnist for The Free Press and The Times. He founded Greenmantle LLC, where he serves as managing director, and co-founded University of Austin and Uala.

Niall Ferguson became an advisor to Ampleforth Protocol in February 2019, a digital-asset protocol whose AMPL token adjusts token supply rather than maintaining a strict one-to-one stablecoin peg. His move into crypto advisory work followed a public shift in his views: having been previously skeptical of cryptocurrencies, he described Bitcoin by 2017 as having established itself as digital gold and a store of value for some investors, and in March 2019 acknowledged he had been wrong to dismiss blockchain-based currency. He also participates in the Hoover Institution's Digital Currency and Electronic Payments Working Group.

Niall Ferguson has accumulated 399,723 followers as of August 2026 on the platform and has published 9,211 posts. He has been mentioned by 436 accounts, with 1,342 total mentions.

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