#viral
The most viral posts using #viral across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Pinterest — ranked by real engagement tracked by ViralHunt.
We track 10387 posts using #viral across 7 networks, carrying 2928M engagement between them — an average of 281.9K per post.
It is used most on TikTok: 5261 of the 10387 posts we hold, 51% of the total.
And TikTok is not just where the volume is: it is also where the tag performs best per post, averaging 458.5K.
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 #viral on TikTok
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Most viral #viral on Bluesky
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Most viral #viral on Instagram
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Most viral #viral on Pinterest
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Most viral #viral on X / Twitter
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Most viral #viral on Facebook
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Most viral #viral on Douyin
#viral in five questions
What is #viral and where is it used?
A hashtag with 10.4K posts tracked by ViralHunt across 7 networks, mostly on TikTok (5.3K posts). Those posts add up to 2928M engagement, about 281.9K per post.
Where does #viral perform best?
On TikTok: 458.5K engagement per post on average, which is also where it is posted most.
When do people post with #viral?
Mostly on Saturdays, around 21:00 UTC: 17% of the 10.4K 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 #viral most?
juve3dstudio (TikTok, 842 posts), tsblackwidow.bsky.social (Bluesky, 770 posts), alistairspark.bsky.social (Bluesky, 249 posts), traselveloreal (Instagram, 238 posts), pubity (Instagram, 198 posts), dailymail (TikTok, 192 posts).
Which hashtags go with #viral?
Other tags with volume on the same networks: #douyin_selection, #hiphop, #travel, #indiegame, #music, #photography.
When people post with #viral
Hour of day and day of the week of the 10.4K dated posts carrying this tag (times in UTC). The busiest hour and day are marked.
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