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    Following people

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

    Members of an enterprise with managed users can only follow other members of their enterprise.

    About followers on GitHub

    When you follow people, you'll see their public activity in the activity view of your news feed. If someone you follow stars a public repository, GitHub may recommend the repository to you in the discovery view of your news feed.

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

    Following a user on GitHub

    1. Click a user image to display that user's profile.

      User image

    2. Click Follow under their profile image.

      Follow user button

    Unfollowing a user on GitHub

    1. Click a user image to display that user's profile.

      User image

    2. Click Unfollow under their profile image.

      User profile button

    Viewing followed users on GitHub

    1. Click a user image to display that user's profile.

      User image

    2. Click following under their profile image.

      User following

    Viewing followers on GitHub

    1. Click a user image to display that user's profile.

      User image

    2. Click followers under their profile image.

      User following

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