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followee

/ˌfɒləʊˈiː/

followee noun: one who is followed (has his/her posts monitored by another user).

Noun

followee (plural followees)

  1. (social media) One who is followed (has his/her posts monitored by another user).
    • Once one unfollows a followee, the follower will not get enough qualified tweets.2013, Witold Pedrycz, Shyi-Ming Chen, editors, Social Networks: A Framework of Computational Intelligence, Springer, →ISBN, page 251
    • Twitter follower/followee structures are far from static: following another user only takes a few clicks.2015, Bob Franklin, editor, The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates, Routledge, →ISBN

Forms of followee

pluralfollowees

Origin of followee

From follow + -ee.

Questions about followee

What does followee mean?
Followee means one who is followed (has his/her posts monitored by another user).
What part of speech is followee?
Followee is a noun.
How do you pronounce followee?
Followee is pronounced /ˌfɒləʊˈiː/.
What is the plural of followee?
The plural of followee is followees.

Words near followee in the dictionary

  1. followed to the grave
  2. followed up
  3. followed up on
  4. followed-up
  5. followedst
  6. followee
  7. followees
  8. Followell
  9. Followells
  10. follower
  11. follower-ship

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