#stories
The most viral posts using #stories across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.
We track 556 posts using #stories across 7 networks, carrying 6.2M engagement between them — an average of 11.2K per post.
It is used most on Bluesky: 478 of the 556 posts we hold, 86% of the total.
Where it performs hardest per post, though, is TikTok, averaging 96.5K — 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 #stories on Bluesky
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Most viral #stories on TikTok
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Most viral #stories on Instagram
See all 8 Instagram posts and track new ones live.
Most viral #stories on Facebook
Most viral #stories on Pinterest
Most viral #stories on X / Twitter
Most viral #stories on Mastodon
#stories in five questions
What is #stories and where is it used?
A hashtag with 556 posts tracked by ViralHunt across 7 networks, mostly on Bluesky (478 posts). Those posts add up to 6.2M engagement, about 11.2K per post.
Where does #stories perform best?
On TikTok: 96.5K 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 #stories?
Mostly on Saturdays, around 15:00 UTC: 17% of the 551 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 #stories most?
jasminevancroft.bsky.social (Bluesky, 272 posts), societiesr (TikTok, 50 posts), jaimegraceuksworld.bsky.social (Bluesky, 17 posts), 4quazulu.bsky.social (Bluesky, 16 posts), pytomonteiro02.bsky.social (Bluesky, 15 posts), Hashem Al-Ghaili (Facebook, 3 posts).
When people post with #stories
Hour of day and day of the week of the 551 dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.
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