#milkyway
The most viral posts using #milkyway across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.
We track 342 posts using #milkyway across 6 networks, carrying 46M engagement between them — an average of 134.4K per post.
It is used most on Instagram: 166 of the 342 posts we hold, 49% of the total.
And Instagram is not just where the volume is: it is also where the tag performs best per post, averaging 235.1K.
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 #milkyway on Instagram
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Most viral #milkyway on Bluesky
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Most viral #milkyway on TikTok
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Most viral #milkyway on Pinterest
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Most viral #milkyway on Mastodon
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#milkyway in five questions
What is #milkyway and where is it used?
A hashtag with 342 posts tracked by ViralHunt across 6 networks, mostly on Instagram (166 posts). Those posts add up to 46M engagement, about 134.4K per post.
Where does #milkyway perform best?
On Instagram: 235.1K engagement per post on average, which is also where it is posted most.
When do people post with #milkyway?
Mostly on Mondays, around 17:00 UTC: 23% of the 336 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 #milkyway most?
itscosmoknowledge (Instagram, 98 posts), science (Instagram, 24 posts), stellarvisions.bsky.social (Bluesky, 21 posts), imaji.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky, 5 posts), daveberthiaumephoto.com (Bluesky, 5 posts), msriffle.bsky.social (Bluesky, 5 posts).
Which hashtags go with #milkyway?
Other tags with volume on the same networks: #retrogaming, #ad, #food, #landscape, #cdnpoli, #fyp.
When people post with #milkyway
Hour of day and day of the week of the 336 dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.
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