Configure microblogging in SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint Server 2013 Preview, following is a user-initiated action that indicates the user's interest in a specific document, person, site, or tag. When users follow an item, new activities about that item appear in the users’ newsfeeds on their My Sites. Users view all their followed items from their My Sites.

Configure Following settings for My Sites

Use this procedure to configure Following settings for My Sites.

Using lower limits can slightly improve performance. Also, by using lower limits, users will follow higher priority documents, people, or sites.

To configure Following settings for My Sites

1.       Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:

·         To configure Following settings for the User Profile service application, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators group on the computer running the SharePoint Central Administration website or a service application administrator for the User Profile service application.

2.       In Central Administration, in the Application Management section, in the Service Applications group, click Manage service applications.

3.       In the list of service applications, select the User Profile service application.

4.       In the Operations group, click Manage.

5.       On the Manage Profile Service page, in the My Sites Settings section, click Manage Following.

6.       In the Maximum number of followed people box, type the maximum number of people that a user can follow from the user’s My Site.

7.       In the Maximum number of followed documents box, type the maximum number of documents that a user can follow from the user’s My Site.

8.       In the Maximum number of followed sites box, type the maximum number of sites that a user can follow from the user’s My Site.

9.       Click OK.