#breaking
The most viral posts using #breaking across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.
We track 1693 posts using #breaking across 7 networks, carrying 8.4M engagement between them — an average of 5K per post.
It is used most on Bluesky: 1432 of the 1693 posts we hold, 85% of the total.
Where it performs hardest per post, though, is TikTok, averaging 94.6K — so the tag is posted most in one place and lands best in another, which is exactly the difference worth knowing before choosing where to use it.
Ranking comes from the posts themselves rather than from how often the tag appears, and it is recalculated as new posts are collected. How we measure this →
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Most viral #breaking on Bluesky
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Most viral #breaking on X / Twitter
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Most viral #breaking on TikTok
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Most viral #breaking on Instagram
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Most viral #breaking on Mastodon
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Most viral #breaking on Douyin
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#breaking in five questions
What is #breaking and where is it used?
A hashtag with 1.7K posts tracked by ViralHunt across 7 networks, mostly on Bluesky (1.4K posts). Those posts add up to 8.4M engagement, about 5K per post.
Where does #breaking perform best?
On TikTok: 94.6K engagement per post on average, even though it is posted more on Bluesky. It is used in one place and works better in another.
When do people post with #breaking?
Mostly on Tuesdays, around 21:00 UTC: 15% of the 1.7K dated posts fall in the three hours around that time. Posting when the tag is active is posting when someone is reading it.
Who uses #breaking most?
newsgroup-site.bsky.social (Bluesky, 434 posts), grainydispatch.bsky.social (Bluesky, 122 posts), en.afp.com (Bluesky, 89 posts), newzblock.bsky.social (Bluesky, 86 posts), mattvanswol (X / Twitter, 28 posts), haskologlu (X / Twitter, 13 posts).
When people post with #breaking
Hour of day and day of the week of the 1.7K dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.
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