Reference
Top hashtags
Every set below is grouped by category and holds only tags that carry real volume on the platform — no filler, no dead tags nobody follows. Copy a whole category in one tap, or take a single tag.
Looking for what people search rather than what they tag? That is a different job and a different vocabulary — see top keywords.
Top Instagram Hashtags by Category
Hashtag sets for the niches people actually post in, ordered so you can take the first few for reach and the rest for a realistic shot at ranking. Instagram shows tag counts in-app, so every number here can be checked against the source in one tap.
300 hashtags10 categoriesReviewed 7 September 2026
Top TikTok Hashtags by Category
TikTok is the one platform that publishes its own hashtag data for free, so these sets are the closest to measured of anything here. Keep the caption to three or four tags — the algorithm reads the video, and a wall of tags mostly costs you caption space.
300 hashtags10 categoriesReviewed 7 September 2026
Top YouTube Hashtags for Long-Form Videos
YouTube reads the first three hashtags in a description and shows them above the title — the rest are ignored. So this page is not about volume, it is about which three are worth that slot on a ten-minute video, where search does most of the discovery work.
300 hashtags10 categoriesReviewed 7 September 2026
Top YouTube Shorts Hashtags by Category
Shorts and long-form are two distribution systems wearing one logo. A Short is pushed by a feed that reads its signals in the first second; a ten-minute video is pulled up by a search index. These are the tags for the first case — short, high-velocity, and refreshed far more often than the long-form set.
300 hashtags10 categoriesReviewed 7 September 2026
Top Pinterest Hashtags & Keywords by Category
Pinterest deprecated hashtags as a ranking signal, and pretending otherwise would be the most expensive advice on this site. What still works is the same vocabulary used as keywords — in the pin title, the description and the board name. These are those terms, and the seasonal curve matters more here than anywhere else: Pinterest demand runs six to eight weeks ahead of the event.
300 hashtags10 categoriesReviewed 7 September 2026
Top X (Twitter) Hashtags by Category
X is the one platform where a second hashtag measurably costs you reach. One tag, occasionally two, and only when it is a room people are actually standing in — the rest of the post’s discovery comes from the text. These sets are ordered accordingly: the first entry in each is usually the only one worth using.
300 hashtags10 categoriesReviewed 7 September 2026
Top LinkedIn Hashtags by Category
LinkedIn hashtags are followable, which makes them behave unlike anywhere else: the number beside each one is an audience, not an archive. Three to five per post, and prefer a tag with a hundred thousand engaged followers over one with two million passive ones.
300 hashtags10 categoriesReviewed 7 September 2026
Top Threads Hashtags by Category
Threads allows exactly one topic tag per post, which turns hashtag strategy into a single decision rather than a list to assemble. Meta publishes no counts, so this page carries no numbers at all — every tag below is here because it is in visible, active use, and saying so is more honest than inventing a figure.
300 hashtags10 categoriesReviewed 7 September 2026
Top Facebook Hashtags by Category
Facebook hashtags do less work than on any other platform here, and a page that pretended otherwise would be selling something. One to three, mainly for Groups and for the small amount of hashtag browsing that still happens — and expect discovery to come from shares and Groups instead. This page is short on purpose.
300 hashtags10 categoriesReviewed 7 September 2026
These sets are chosen and maintained by hand rather than scraped, and each page names the sources it was built from so you can check any figure yourself. Every tag listed is one in active, high-volume use on its platform; tags that have gone quiet are removed at each review rather than left to pad a count.