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Social Media & Content Creation vocabulary · Posting and Publishing

Schedule

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

/ˈskedʒuːl/verbCore term

In social media & content creation, schedule means: To set a post to be published automatically at a chosen date and time instead of publishing it right away.

In Turkish: planlamak, zamanlamak, ileri tarihe kurmak

How it is used

Social media managers schedule a whole week of posts with built-in tools or scheduling apps. You schedule a post for a certain time or date; a scheduled post can still be edited before it goes out.

Example sentences

  1. I've scheduled the campaign posts for Monday at 9 a.m.

  2. Can you schedule the holiday greeting so it goes out at midnight?

Common collocations

  • schedule a post
  • scheduled post
  • scheduling tool
  • schedule in advance
  • content calendarA plan that shows what content will be published, on which platform and on which date, usually for the coming weeks or months.
  • postA piece of content, such as a photo, video or text, that you publish on a social media account for other people to see.
  • draftA post or video that has been created and saved but not yet published, so it can still be changed.
  • cross-postTo publish the same content on more than one platform or account, sometimes with small changes for each one.

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