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Live

Content is live when it is published and currently visible to its intended audience on a social media service.

In plain English

This status shows the content has already been put out on the service, not kept back as unpublished. The people it is meant for can see it now.

In context

Here, "Live" indicates that the content has been published and is currently visible to the audience it is meant to reach.

Situation
Creating posts, drafts, stories, tags, mentions, visibility, and moderation states
What it communicates
marks content as currently visible to its audience

Meaning limits

By itself, this term does not say when the content was published, only that it is visible now.

Examples

“The school fair poster is live for parents now, but the raffle notice is still in draft.”

Core meaning

“After correcting the date, they made the event reminder live for local members.”

In context

  • published Broader Term

    In this sense, live is a published state with current visibility to the intended audience.

  • draft Contrast

    Draft content is not in the live state.