What is a Profile Page?
A profile page is a webpage or equivalent that contains information about an user in a social network, forum, or other online community, in particular their latest posts.
The URL (address) of a profile page typically contains a text code selected by the user called the user's handle, which may be their username. For example, https://www.tiktok.com/@virtualcuriosities is a URL for a profile page in TikTok. In this case, the handle is virtualcuriosities, which is also the user's username. The same idea applies to most social media, e.g. Instagram, Reddit, Threads.
On Youtube, profiles are called "channels," and they can have a custom URL, too. On Tumblr, there are no profiles, but "blogs," which can be fully functional websites. Users call their handles on Tumblr "URLs," e.g. nasa.tumblr.com would have the "URL" nasa.
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