Last October, we announced that as part of a limited pilot, people would be able to follow the Google Maps profiles of select Local Guides in 9 cities to receive recommendations on places and experiences nearby. We later expanded the pilot to thousands more Local Guides from 23 new cities to participate.
Today, we’re sharing here on Connect that the feature is rolling out globally to all Google Maps contributors over the next few weeks. Users with public profiles will be followable to others. Once someone follows you, they will get updates when you add new photos or post reviews. If you prefer not to have others follow you, you can make your Google Maps profile restricted. With a restricted profile, you approve new followers before they can see contributions on your profile. As always, you can update your profile settings at any time to manage who can see contributions on your profile.
Once someone follows you, they’ll get your helpful recommendations and advice delivered to their Updates tab on Google Maps. Visit The Keyword to learn more.
To get started with this new feature, visit your Google Maps profile to enable Following.
Local Guides, we’d love to know what you think! Have you used this feature yet? Share your excitement for the launch in the comments below.
YESSS! So happy to finally see this feature rolling out globally - I’ve got tons of LG’s I’ve been meaning to follow that have been following me since the initial rollouts . Thanks for the update, @TiffanyBnyc !
I do hope that many people that did not have the early feature, will take full access of it because it is so amazing to connect with other local guides. I really enjoy all the local guides who follow me and who I follow back. I have read some of the most amazing reviews and have browsed through countless epic photos. So many places I have saved in Maps that I would like to someday visit, all because of the ability to follow others. Thank you for this!
Yippee!!! I finally get to use this feature and have people following me to see my updates. It’s coming at such a timely manner. Thanks for this wonderful announcement @TiffanyBnyc . Very helpful.
. Thanks for the update, 
