#longreads
The most viral posts using #longreads across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.
We track 1735 posts using #longreads across 2 networks, carrying 128K engagement between them — an average of 74 per post.
It is used most on X / Twitter: 1690 of the 1735 posts we hold, 97% of the total.
And X / Twitter is not just where the volume is: it is also where the tag performs best per post, averaging 76.
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 #longreads on X / Twitter
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Most viral #longreads on Bluesky
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#longreads in five questions
What is #longreads and where is it used?
A hashtag with 1.7K posts tracked by ViralHunt across 2 networks, mostly on X / Twitter (1.7K posts). Those posts add up to 128K engagement, about 74 per post.
Where does #longreads perform best?
On X / Twitter: 76 engagement per post on average, which is also where it is posted most.
When do people post with #longreads?
Mostly on Thursdays, around 18:00 UTC: 19% 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 #longreads most?
ScienceNews (X / Twitter, 1146 posts), NewsfromScience (X / Twitter, 544 posts), readponder.bsky.social (Bluesky, 25 posts), markarms.bsky.social (Bluesky, 10 posts), edodeven.bsky.social (Bluesky, 2 posts), bpucker.bsky.social (Bluesky, 2 posts).
When people post with #longreads
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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