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Social Media & Content Creation vocabulary · Engagement and Reach

Share

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

/ʃer/verbCore term

In social media & content creation, share means: To pass your own or someone else's content on to other people, for example by sending it in a message or posting it to your story.

In Turkish: paylaşmak, iletmek

How it is used

Shares are seen as a strong sign of interest because people show the content to their own circle. You share a post, share it with friends or share it to your story; 'shares' is also a metric in reports.

Example sentences

  1. People shared the infographic thousands of times in private messages.

  2. If you found this useful, share it with a friend who's starting a business.

Common collocations

  • share a post
  • share with friends
  • share to your story
  • number of shares
  • worth sharing
  • engagementAll the ways people interact with your content, such as liking, commenting, sharing, saving or clicking.
  • repostTo share someone else's post again on your own account or story, usually with credit to the original creator.
  • go viralTo spread very quickly across the internet because huge numbers of people watch, share and talk about something in a short time.
  • saveAn action in which a user stores a post in a private collection to look at it again later; the total number is shown as saves.

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