Instagram Now Limits You to Five Hashtags per Post
Instagram limits hashtags to five per post to reduce spam and misuse while enhancing community-focused content discovery, following a year of testing hashtag restrictions.
- Instagram will now cap hashtags at five per post, with the platform gradually updating posts and Reels captions, Adam Mosseri announced.
- Testing across Instagram, the platform has been limiting hashtags to five per post in the past year, while Threads enforces one, according to Instagram.
- Mosseri has long argued that hashtags help with search but do not increase reach, advising creators and users to prefer a few targeted hashtags over long lists for better performance.
- Limiting tags to five will change how creators tag posts and may reduce misuse, as Instagram says the limit aims to curb spammers and scammers in the app.
- Looking at the bigger picture, Instagram says AI algorithms now play a bigger role in surfacing content, steering community-based tags away from engagement-hacking this year.
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