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I seem to notice about a 50-50 split on whether having stuff in your github profile is worthwile, but when it comes to someone pursuing very junior roles, i would imagine it cant hurt.

I'd be more interested to know what some hiring managers would like to see in a github profile for a junior dev - are they looking for twitter clones as you suggest? open source contributions? side projects? are they just looking for proof that you have interest and passion for development? or are they looking at the code to see how sophisticated it is, how it conforms to best practices wrt commenting, etc.?