After further inspection, I've seen that in the inspect element the link which the "Followers" button takes you to is "https://github.com/username/followers" whilst the link GitHub uses is "https://github.com/username?tab=followers"
After further inspection, I've seen that in the inspect element the link which the "Followers" button takes you to is "https://github.com/username/followers" whilst the link GitHub uses is "https://github.com/username?tab=followers"