It’s been more than a year since Facebook introduced the Twitter-like “subscribers” feature, letting you follow public updates from people you aren’t friends with.
Well, a year is a long time to go without changing any feature at the rapidly iterating social network — which announced Wednesday that it would be changing the name of your subscribers. At some point in the next few days, and henceforth, they will be known as followers.
via Why Facebook Just Turned Your Subscribers Into ‘Followers’.