unfollow
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unfollow (third-person singular simple present unfollows, present participle unfollowing, simple past and past participle unfollowed)
- (transitive, intransitive, social media) To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity).
- 2009 April 22, Maureen Dowd, “To Tweet or Not to Tweet”, in New York Times[1]:
- With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.
- 2022 December 8, “Farsi editorial team: Mixed feelings on 60th anniversary”, in DW News[2], archived from the original on 09 December 2022, Press[3]:
- The calls came from Iranian intelligence as soon as the protests began. Agents threatened the family and friends of a DW editor, telling them to cut off contact with him and to unfollow him on Instagram. The journalist was said to be a "muharebbe" (Engl. warrior against God) – which is punishable by death in Iran.
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to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)