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# The People and Records You Auto-Follow Initially

Starting in June 2010, when your administrator initially turns on Chatter, we help get you started by automatically following certain users and records in your organization.

Who and what you auto-follow differ based on the size of your organization:

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-collaboration-264-0-0-production-enus/1aab5b5e-c990-4b8c-840a-6fb18af49709/images/icon_note.png)

Note The auto-follow setting for records applies only to the records that exist at the time your administrator turns Chatter on. For any future records that you create, auto-follow is disabled by default to reduce the number of updates you receive in your Chatter feed. However, if you want to receive updates on all future records that you create, you can enable auto-follow in your personal settings.

Currently, you can't customize a report based on records that you're following in Chatter.

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          <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d20586e44">If Your Organization Has:</th>
          <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d20586e47">Users You Follow Automatically</th>
          <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d20586e50">Records You Follow Automatically</th>
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          <td data-label="If Your Organization Has:" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d20586e44 ">15 users or fewer</td>

          <td data-label="Users You Follow Automatically" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d20586e47 ">All users in your organization</td>

          <td data-label="Records You Follow Automatically" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d20586e50 ">
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              Up to 25 of your most recently used records, in the
              following order:
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            <ul>
              <li>Open opportunities you own</li>

              <li>Accounts you own</li>

              <li>Open cases you own</li>

              <li>Contacts you own</li>

              <li>Open opportunities you created</li>

              <li>Accounts you created</li>

              <li>Open cases you created</li>

              <li>Contacts you created</li>

              <li>Open opportunities you last modified</li>

              <li>Accounts you last modified</li>

              <li>Open cases you last modified</li>

              <li>Contacts you last modified</li>

              <li>Open opportunities you viewed</li>

              <li>Accounts you viewed</li>

              <li>Open cases you viewed</li>

              <li>Contacts you viewed</li>

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          <td data-label="If Your Organization Has:" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d20586e44 ">16 or more users</td>

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            <p>Up to 25 users in your organization, including (if available):</p>
            <ul>
              <li>Your manager</li>
              <li>Users that report to your manager</li>
              <li>Your subordinates</li>
              <li>Teammates on your account teams</li>
              <li>Teammates on your opportunity teams</li>
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            <p>Up to 25 of your most recently used records, in the following order:</p>
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              <li>Open opportunities you own</li>
              <li>Accounts you own</li>
              <li>Open cases you own</li>
              <li>Contacts you own</li>
              <li>Open opportunities you created</li>
              <li>Accounts you created</li>
              <li>Open cases you created</li>
              <li>Contacts you created</li>
              <li>Open opportunities you last modified</li>
              <li>Accounts you last modified</li>
              <li>Open cases you last modified</li>
              <li>Contacts you last modified</li>
              <li>Open opportunities you viewed</li>
              <li>Accounts you viewed</li>
              <li>Open cases you viewed</li>
              <li>Contacts you viewed</li>
            </ul>
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#### See Also

- [People Recommendations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_people_recommendations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Chatter recommends people for you to follow based on similar interests.")
- [Record Recommendations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_record_recommendations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Following records helps keep you up-to-date on important changes to accounts, contacts, opportunities, and more.")
- [Automatically Follow the Records That You Create](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.collab_stop_following.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "When you follow a record, information about updates to tracked record fields are sent to your What I Follow feed in Chatter.")