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Social Media & Content Creation vocabulary · Followers and Community

Unfollow

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

verbCommon term

In social media & content creation, unfollow means: To stop subscribing to an account's updates by ending the follow connection.

In Turkish: takipten çıkmak

How it is used

Users unfollow accounts to change their feeds; it is distinct from blocking someone or deleting their account.

Example sentences

  1. Some followers chose to unfollow after the account changed topics.

    The users end an existing subscription to updates.

  2. You can unfollow the account without removing your old comments.

    Ending a follow connection does not erase past contributions.

Common collocations

  • unfollow an account
  • choose to unfollow
  • followerA person or account that has chosen to follow you, so that your posts can appear in their feed.
  • feedThe main scrolling stream of posts you see when you open a social media app, made up of content from accounts you follow and recommendations.

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