#breakingnews
The most viral posts using #breakingnews across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.
We track 2571 posts using #breakingnews across 6 networks, carrying 40.2M engagement between them — an average of 15.6K per post.
It is used most on Bluesky: 1905 of the 2571 posts we hold, 74% of the total.
Where it performs hardest per post, though, is Instagram, averaging 81.8K — 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 #breakingnews on Bluesky
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Most viral #breakingnews on TikTok
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Most viral #breakingnews on Instagram
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Most viral #breakingnews on X / Twitter
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Most viral #breakingnews on Mastodon
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Most viral #breakingnews on Pinterest
#breakingnews in five questions
What is #breakingnews and where is it used?
A hashtag with 2.6K posts tracked by ViralHunt across 6 networks, mostly on Bluesky (1.9K posts). Those posts add up to 40.2M engagement, about 15.6K per post.
Where does #breakingnews perform best?
On Instagram: 81.8K 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 #breakingnews?
Mostly on Fridays, around 00:00 UTC: 16% of the 2.6K 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 #breakingnews most?
tsblackwidow.bsky.social (Bluesky, 784 posts), globalnews3.bsky.social (Bluesky, 351 posts), herosherali.bsky.social (Bluesky, 107 posts), bnewso.bsky.social (Bluesky, 104 posts), bbcnews (TikTok, 56 posts), dailymail (TikTok, 48 posts).
Which hashtags go with #breakingnews?
Other tags with volume on the same networks: #artist, #virtualphotography, #history, #anime, #cdnpoli, #birdoftheday.
When people post with #breakingnews
Hour of day and day of the week of the 2.6K dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.
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