Abstract
GitHub has attracted much popularity among a large number of software developers around the world and introduced the social function follow to strengthen the relationship among developers. Like other social networks, GitHub users usually follow others who are popular in the community, co-workers, or friends in real life. However, according to our investigation, more than half of GitHub users prefer to follow recently like-minded developers other than their traditional networks for communicating with timely feedback, discovering niche repositories, and attracting more active contributors to cooperate, while these users are hard to find.
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