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 50 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #18,070 (top 5%) among 483,944 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 262,367 followers as of August 2026 across 6,135 posts. The account has been mentioned by 112 accounts a total of 423 times.
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The accounts that follow Planet include 232 founders, 59 angel investors, 59 influencers and 14 VCs. Among them are Elon Musk, Andrej Karpathy, Vance Spencer, Mario Nawfal, Packy McCormick and Andrew Chen.