Feed Filter, Chatter
In Chatter, a Feed Filter is a built-in option for narrowing the feed to a subset of posts - common filters include All Updates, To Me (posts mentioning the user), Bookmarked, Company Highlights, and Most Recent.
Definition
In Chatter, a Feed Filter is a built-in option for narrowing the feed to a subset of posts - common filters include All Updates, To Me (posts mentioning the user), Bookmarked, Company Highlights, and Most Recent. Feed Filters appear as selectable chips in the Chatter feed header and let users manage information overload without leaving their feed view.
In plain English
“Feed Filter in Chatter is like the "show me only messages where I was tagged" toggle on a group chat. The Chatter feed can get busy with posts from everyone, so filters let you narrow it down - to just the things where you were mentioned, or things you bookmarked, or just the recent company-wide highlights.”
Worked example
A product manager at Turner & Reed logs into Salesforce on Monday after a long weekend and faces a 300-post Chatter backlog. She switches the Feed Filter from "All Updates" to "To Me" and sees only the 17 posts where teammates tagged her - questions on the roadmap post, sign-offs needed on a Feature draft, and two escalations on a Customer account. She works through those first, then flips to "Bookmarked" to revisit the deep-dive articles she saved for later.
Why Feed Filter, Chatter matters
Feed Filters are a Chatter UX affordance for cutting through feed volume. The standard filter set - All Updates, To Me, Bookmarked, Company Highlights, Most Recent - ships out of the box and works across the global Chatter feed, record feeds, and group feeds (with slight variations per feed type). Users toggle filters from the feed header; there is no admin configuration required to enable them.
Feed Filters are distinct from two related concepts admins sometimes confuse them with: Feed Tracking (the Setup feature that controls which field changes generate tracked updates in the feed) and Feed Layouts (the page-layout control that determines which publisher actions show above a record's feed). Filters are a runtime, per-user reading tool; Tracking and Layouts are org-level admin configurations. In orgs where Chatter adoption is strong, training users to use 'To Me' as their default filter dramatically improves the signal-to-noise ratio of Chatter as a work surface.
How organizations use Feed Filter, Chatter
Trains new hires to default the Chatter Feed Filter to 'To Me' so onboarding isn't drowned by company-wide announcements they don't yet need.
Uses the Bookmarked filter as a lightweight 'follow up later' list - project leads bookmark posts they need to reply to once they have more context.
Relies on the Most Recent filter during incident-response Chatter threads so responders see the latest updates first rather than threaded replies to older messages.
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