John McAfee (@officialmcafee) — Twitter Score 282 out of 1000

John McAfee is a cybersecurity entrepreneur who founded McAfee Associates, the antivirus software company, and later became a prominent crypto promoter before his death in 2021. The @officialmcafee account is now maintained as a legacy account to preserve his writings. John McAfee's Twitter Score is 282 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,288 (top 0.5%) among 473,418 tracked accounts.

John McAfee previously served as chairman and CEO of MGT Capital Investments, where he directed the company into bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining before departing in January 2018 to focus on cryptocurrencies. He also previously worked at Luxcore as CEO. In 2019, he publicly promoted the $WHACKD token on his X account.

John McAfee faced significant legal scrutiny in his final years. The DOJ unsealed a June 2020 indictment charging him with tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns, alleging he earned millions from promoting cryptocurrencies, consulting, speaking, and selling documentary rights, and allegedly hid assets in nominee names. The DOJ noted that an indictment is only an allegation and a defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. On October 5, 2020, the SEC charged him with fraudulently touting initial coin offerings to Twitter followers without disclosing compensation, alleging he received more than $23 million in digital assets for those promotions. The SEC further alleged that he and Jimmy Watson engaged in a separate scheme involving secretly accumulating a digital asset position, touting it publicly, and selling as the price rose. In March 2021, the SDNY announced an additional indictment charging him and Jimmy Gale Watson Jr. with conspiracy to commit commodities and securities fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, and money laundering conspiracy, alleging the schemes generated more than $13 million from investors. At the time of that announcement, McAfee was detained in Spain on separate DOJ Tax Division criminal charges. He died in 2021 before any of these cases reached a verdict.

John McAfee has accumulated 1,208,518 followers as of July 2026 across 65,955 posts on the platform. In January 2025, the account became active again to announce a meme coin and an antivirus chatbot project, with Janice McAfee stating the account had not been hacked and that the project was intended to honor his legacy. John McAfee has been mentioned by 1,324 accounts, with 6,589 total mentions.

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The accounts that follow John McAfee include 1,251 founders, 224 angel investors, 849 influencers and 49 VCs. Among them are Chris Dixon, Arthur Hayes, Ansem, Nikita Bier, Erik Voorhees and Threadguy.