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> [What’s a good word for a person that’s being followed?](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/23518/whats-a-good-word-for-a-person-thats-being-followed) 
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For example, a Twitter user can have many *followers*. Twitter refers to the users that another user is following as *following*, more in a verbal sense of the word.

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What one word could be used as a noun to label those whom one is following? I thought of *followee* and a coworker came across *guide*, of which I’m not sure how it works.