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๐Ÿฆ„ Sharing DEV Followers Count on Github Profile ๐Ÿฆ„

GitHub now displays DEV follower count on profiles, aiding personal branding for developers.

Heating
Signal score
65
Trajectory
โ†‘ Accelerating
7-day est. ~74

Why this scored 65

every term, weighted
Velocity+40.0 / 40

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+18.4 / 25

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+0.0 / 25

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+8.5 / 10

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penaltyโˆ’1.9 / 30

Subtracted once something is big and old โ€” we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite65.0

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned โ€” we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Outlook

low confidence ยท estimate, not a guarantee

7-day

~74

range 31โ€“87

14-day

~84

range 38โ€“100

30-day

~88

range 37โ€“100

Signal history

7-day window (free)
1275

projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)

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Drop this in a README or blog post โ€” it updates automatically as the score moves.