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Bijay Kumar
Before checking this article you can check out some New features in SharePoint 2013. Through this article we will discuss about the work of follow and unfollow concept in SharePoint 2013.
SharePoint 2013 provides a twitter like features like follow and unfollow button. It works like twitter, If you will follow any one then you will able to see updates from the user.
A user can follow people, content etc. If you follow a people, then the posts and activities of the followed people show up in the user's newsfeed.
User also can follow contents. When users following documents, sites, or tags, they get status updates about the followed items in their newsfeed. The features related to following content can be seen on the Newsfeed and the Following content pages on My Site.
If you want to work with follow and unfollow using object model then you can follow the below articles
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163133(v=office.15).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163217(v=office.15).aspx
Also through SharePoint 2013 we can use @ and # tag for content as well as people. If user enters a tag, SharePoint helpfully provides some recommendations for the user to select from. If a user is identified using the @ tag, they will receive a Mention in their Newsfeed, as well as an email the way it works in Twitter.
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