unfollow

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Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ follow

Verb[edit]

unfollow (third-person singular simple present unfollows, present participle unfollowing, simple past and past participle unfollowed)

  1. (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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  • Cantonese: unfol
  • German: entfolgen (calque)

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