I get a ton of value out of being able to "follow" authors / keywords on Google Scholar. It's a shame you can't see who others follow (or maybe just a public subset): meandering around the "follow" graph like on Twitter would be really fascinating!
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Connected Papers is awesome for following around a similar web of ArXiv papers
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Yes, it's great! There's an interesting and subtle difference between citing and "following"…