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What does the typical web user today expect to happen when he clicks a "follow" button?
I suppose Twitter was the early reference. In that case, it meant and means that posts by that person appear our the homepage timeline/feed. More and more sites have implementing following with unclear effects. For example Gamespot.com
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That's what it's like on all websites, even Blogger before Twitter popularised the word.