#lightning
The most viral posts using #lightning across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.
We track 127 posts using #lightning across 8 networks, carrying 1.1M engagement between them — an average of 8.4K per post.
It is used most on Bluesky: 83 of the 127 posts we hold, 65% of the total.
Where it performs hardest per post, though, is TikTok, averaging 37.9K — 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 #lightning on Bluesky
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Most viral #lightning on Instagram
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Most viral #lightning on TikTok
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Most viral #lightning on Douyin
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Most viral #lightning on Pinterest
Most viral #lightning on X / Twitter
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#lightning in five questions
What is #lightning and where is it used?
A hashtag with 127 posts tracked by ViralHunt across 8 networks, mostly on Bluesky (83 posts). Those posts add up to 1.1M engagement, about 8.4K per post.
Where does #lightning perform best?
On TikTok: 37.9K 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 #lightning?
Mostly on Saturdays, around 14:00 UTC: 26% of the 121 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 #lightning most?
science (Instagram, 22 posts), paulmac.bsky.social (Bluesky, 9 posts), kevinpphotography.bsky.social (Bluesky, 2 posts), garyhershorn.bsky.social (Bluesky, 2 posts), magicalscope.bsky.social (Bluesky, 2 posts), espn (TikTok, 2 posts).
When people post with #lightning
Hour of day and day of the week of the 121 dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.
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