Planet is a public benefit corporation and satellite imagery company that collects Earth observation data daily from a fleet of over 200 operational satellites. Planet's Twitter Score is 51 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #17,667 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Planet, formally known as Planet Labs PBC, was co-founded by Will Marshall, Robbie Schingler, and Chris Boshuizen. The company has built and deployed 450 satellites in total, with more than 200 currently in orbit capturing over 350 million square kilometers of imagery every day. Its common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker PL, following a business combination with dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV completed on December 7, 2021, with trading beginning the following day.
Planet has grown through a series of acquisitions and partnerships. In 2015, it acquired the geospatial business of BlackBridge, including the RapidEye satellite constellation. In 2017, it acquired Terra Bella from Google and entered into a multi-year data contract with Google, which also took an equity stake in the company as part of that transaction. Additional backers include BlackRock, Founders Fund, Marc Benioff, DFJ, and OATV.
Planet has accumulated 266,219 followers as of October 2026 across 6,192 posts. The account has been mentioned by 122 accounts a total of 443 times.
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The accounts that follow Planet include 242 founders, 62 angel investors, 59 influencers and 15 VCs. Among them are Elon Musk, Toly, Andrej Karpathy, Vance Spencer, Mario Nawfal and Packy McCormick.