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Feed

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

/fiːd/nounCore term

In social media & content creation, feed means: The main scrolling stream of posts you see when you open a social media app, made up of content from accounts you follow and recommendations.

In Turkish: akış, ana sayfa, feed

How it is used

You scroll through your feed, and posts appear or show up in someone's feed. Creators also mean their own profile grid when they say 'my feed', for example when they talk about keeping a consistent feed.

Example sentences

  1. Your post didn't show up in my feed at all yesterday.

  2. We use the same warm colors in every photo to keep our feed consistent.

Common collocations

  • scroll through the feed
  • show up in the feed
  • news feed
  • feed post
  • feed aesthetic
  • algorithmThe system a platform uses to decide which posts each user sees, in what order, and which content to recommend.
  • postA piece of content, such as a photo, video or text, that you publish on a social media account for other people to see.
  • storyA short photo or video that appears at the top of an app and disappears after 24 hours, used for casual, everyday updates.
  • For You pageTikTok's main feed of recommended videos, chosen for each user by the algorithm and including many from accounts they don't follow.

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