Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) — Twitter Score 544 out of 1000

Dave Portnoy is the founder and owner of Barstool Sports, a sports and pop-culture media company with a large gambling and retail-trading audience. He was formerly affiliated with PENN Entertainment, which sold Barstool back to him in 2023 after its effort to connect the brand to sports-betting did not work out, and was previously affiliated with The Chernin Group. Dave Portnoy's Twitter Score is 544 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026.

Dave Portnoy operates the Davey Day Trader Global (DDTG) trading persona and show, through which he periodically discusses speculative assets and meme coins to a large retail audience. In February 2025, he launched a meme coin called $GREED, sold his holdings for over $250,000, and the price subsequently collapsed; he then launched a follow-up token, $GREED2. Dave Portnoy is also affiliated with DraftKings, with Barstool Sports and DraftKings having finalized a multi-year sports-betting media partnership in February 2024.

Dave Portnoy has been involved in several notable crypto-related legal and regulatory matters. He was a defendant in a SafeMoon investor class-action lawsuit alleging a pump-and-dump scheme but was dismissed from the case in 2022 after documentation showed he received no compensation from SafeMoon for promoting the token and lost his own investment. SafeMoon executives were subsequently charged by U.S. authorities with securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, and SafeMoon filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in December 2023. Separately, VanEck agreed to pay the SEC nearly $2 million to settle charges over disclosure failures tied to the VanEck Social Sentiment ETF he promoted; he was not named as a defendant in that SEC action. He also interviewed Hayden Davis following the $LIBRA meme-coin collapse, with New York Magazine reporting that Davis told him the $100 million at issue was Argentina's.

Dave Portnoy has 3,869,603 followers as of July 2026 on X, ranks #267 (top 0.1%) out of 389,201 accounts tracked on this platform, and has published 110,706 posts. He has been mentioned by 1,559 accounts, with 12,733 total mentions.

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Dave Portnoy draws a broad audience across crypto and finance. The accounts that follow Dave Portnoy include 1,593 founders, 282 angel investors, 1,432 influencers and 37 VCs, among them Erik Voorhees, CZ BNB, Ansem, Toly, Michael Saylor and Binance.