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The meaning of "The number of Followers of a tag"
The number of followers is shown in the tooltip which is displayed when you hover over a tag. As already explained in comments, this is number of users who have the tag among their favorite tags plus ...
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Pink questions in the list
The questions which are in different color are those ones, which have one of your watched tags. (This feature used to be called favorited tags, but it was later renamed.)
From What do “watched tags” ...
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How do I follow a tag on MathOverflow?
There's a feature 'Filtered Questions' on stackexchange.com. Just go to https://stackexchange.com/filters/new and fill out the form:
That works for email; if you're more into RSS feeds, there is a ...
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Tag subscriptions and "Watch tag"
This is only partial answer, since I was unable to replicate the behavior you describe. (I do not see the "manage subscriptions" button. Possibly the reason that I do not get this button might be that ...
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Pink questions in the list
Whenever you happen to have the privilege to see deleted questions or answers, they are given a reddish background to differentiate them from the rest.
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