Popular Twitter hashtags for news

Not sure which hashtags to use for news? These 30 are often used along with the word 'news':

Use these hashtags to get seen now

Hashtags
#news 4,604 1,292 44,994,804 15.03% 95.83% 5.26% View Stats
#trump 1,500 2,408 18,767,108 21.93% 58.87% 19.47% View Stats
#foxnews 179 67 2,609,296 11.73% 34.64% 34.64% View Stats
#bbc 179 196 2,191,125 0% 93.3% 6.7% View Stats
#breaking 283 963 4,780,408 13.43% 72.08% 20.49% View Stats
#world 217 100 933,375 11.52% 74.65% 13.36% View Stats
#breakingnews 483 146 2,187,342 9.52% 93.17% 2.48% View Stats
#today 238 83 3,414,146 26.05% 87.39% 15.97% View Stats
#niconews 258 17 243,204 0% 100% 0% View Stats
#tech 1,417 1,025 10,408,267 22.37% 95.84% 11.43% View Stats
#linenews 246 33 494,517 0% 100% 91.46% View Stats
#media 250 129 514,750 11.6% 86.8% 13.2% View Stats
#video 771 700 109,521,646 23.74% 94.55% 11.93% View Stats
#london 425 237 2,485,612 25.41% 70.59% 19.53% View Stats
#music 2,492 654 33,398,329 17.74% 91.13% 20.55% View Stats
#people 104 46 4,248,346 44.23% 72.12% 11.54% View Stats
#cnn 250 483 3,869,429 13.2% 66.8% 24.8% View Stats
#manchester 125 92 267,967 26.4% 70.4% 13.6% View Stats
#time 112 46 604,762 7.14% 59.82% 15.18% View Stats
#ldnews 192 66 164,567 0% 100% 2.08% View Stats

Use these hashtags to get seen over time

Hashtags
#fox 38 45 414,475 0% 76.32% 0% View Stats
#bbcnews 29 29 148,354 0% 86.21% 0% View Stats
#thanks 67 25 277,588 17.91% 74.63% 37.31% View Stats
#may 4 0 150 0% 100% 100% View Stats
#day 25 125 220,338 16% 48% 16% View Stats
#man 67 45 257,950 31.34% 74.63% 11.94% View Stats
#report 12 30 109,475 0% 100% 66.67% View Stats
#attack 29 33 112,758 13.79% 86.21% 0% View Stats
#story 71 12 4,403,062 16.9% 100% 5.63% View Stats

Do not use these hashtags, very few people are following them

Hashtags
#newsthanks 0 0 0 0% 0% 0% View Stats


Connections and Stats about #news


4604
unique tweets
per hour
1292
retweets
per hour
44.99M
hashtag exposure
per hour
15%
tweets with images
96%
tweets with links
5%
tweets with mentions
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