Following people

You can follow people on GitHub to receive notifications about their activity and discover projects in their communities.

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About followers on GitHub

When you follow people, you'll see their public activity on your personal dashboard. If someone you follow stars a public repository, GitHub may recommend the repository to you. For more information, see About your personal dashboard.

You can unfollow someone if you do not wish to see their public activity on GitHub.

Following a user on GitHub

  1. Navigate to the user's profile page.
  2. Under the user's profile picture, click Follow.

Unfollowing a user on GitHub

  1. Navigate to the user's profile page.
  2. Under the user's profile picture, click Unfollow.

Viewing followed users on GitHub

  1. Navigate to the user's profile page.

  2. Under the user's profile picture, click following.

    Screenshot of the sidebar of @octocat's profile page. A link, labeled "9 following", is outlined in dark orange.

Viewing followers on GitHub

  1. Navigate to the user's profile page.

  2. Under the user's profile picture, click followers.

    Screenshot of the sidebar of @octocat's profile page. A people icon and a link, labeled "8.4k followers", are outlined in dark orange.

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