The days are getting longer, the first flowers come into bloom and a very specific set of hashtags are spreading through Social Media platforms – it’s spring again! In this blogpost I took a look at spring-related pictures on Instagram. Right now, the use of hashtags on Instagram has not entered the mainstream. For this analysis, I took a look at the latest 938 images tagged with “#spring”. The average rate was 12 spring-tagged pictures a day, but this rate will be increasing during the next days and weeks.
The following hashtags were most frequently used in combination with the #spring hashtag:
- Flower(s) (198 mentions, 2639 likes)
- Sun (160, 2018)
- Tree(s) (130, 2230)
- Nature (128, 2718)
- Love (119, 1681)
- Girl (107, 1469)
- Sky (89, 2057)
- Fashion (64, 924)
- Beautiful (61, 1050)
- Blue (59, 1234)
Although I would associate spring with green, the Instagram community has other preferences:
- Blue (59 mentions, 1234 likes)
- Pink (42, 396)
- Green (40, 444)
- White (29, 457)
- Yellow (22, 369)
- Red (17, 230)
- Black (16, 267)
- Brown (7, 117)
- Orange (7, 77)
- Grey (3, 50)
So these are the spring colors according to Instagram hashtags
Here are the top 15 most liked spring pictures on Instagram right now:
Here’s the tag network that is showing the relations between the 2445 other unique hashtags that appeared in connection with #spring (see PDF):
Instagram wouldn’t be half the fun without the various filters to apply to the images. But #spring is best enjoyed in natural form. 28% of all #spring posts were posted without any additional filter:
- Normal (261)
- X-Pro II (91)
- Rise (83)
- Amaro (81)
- Lo-fi (68)
- Hefe (54)
- Earlybird (48)
- Hudson (41)
- Sierra (34)
- Valencia (33)