https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/categories/tech-observation/Recent content in Tech Observation on Lynx Tech BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenSun, 23 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0800https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/github-follower-leaderboard-non-celebrity/Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0800https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/github-follower-leaderboard-non-celebrity/<img src="https://blog.lynxflow.co/images/github-follower-leaderboard-non-celebrity-cover.png" alt="Featured image of post No Stars on the GitHub Follower Leaderboard: Among 350 Million Accounts, Who Has the Most Followers?" />One Question There are over 300 million accounts on GitHub, and the majority of people have double-digit follower counts. So here&rsquo;s the question:excluding &ldquo;living legends&rdquo; like Linus Torvalds and corporate burner accounts like Claude, who is the most-followed &ldquo;ordinary real user&rdquo;? Not a guess—actual data. I used the GitHub Search API to enumerate every user with over 10,000 followers (356 in total, data as of August 23, 2026), then fetched each profile, dug into the