About followers

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

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

Unfollowing a user

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

Viewing followed users

1. Navigate to the user's profile page.

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

   

Viewing followers

1. Navigate to the user's profile page.

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

   

Further reading

• Saving repositories with stars
• Finding ways to contribute to open source on GitHub