unfollow

unfollow

English

Etymology

un- +‎ follow

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) 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:

     With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.

Translations

to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)

German: entfolgen (de)

Portuguese: desseguir

See also

• unfriend