Fans (English: fans) is a Chinese word, also called stargazers. It means a group of people who worship a certain star or artist , most of them are young people with a fashionable and popular mindset.

fans is the plural of fan which means group of stargazers. So fan means enthusiasts, and fans are the lovers and admirers of a star.

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Originally, a "fan" was called a "star chaser. stargazers. But this term has long been abandoned by the fashion. Nowadays, many young people are in love with this new term, which has become synonymous with fashion. Fans are supporters.

The word fan also appears in many kinds of cyberspace such as microblogging and Baidu posting bar, where fans are supporters of bloggers and space owners.

In Sina Weibo, "followers" are people you follow. The more people you "follow", the more information you have access to, which means the more people you are likely to see tweets from.

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