Instagram Hashtags for Collectible Sneakers

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Here’s what I found out about sneaker topics on Instagram1.

Two years ago on August 23, 2013 TheShoeGame published a list of popular sneaker hashtags with the number of posts in the whole IG universe. Today, those same hashtags generated over 2k times more posts, counts for each hashtag is listed in the table below.

Table 1. Top Hashtags

HashtagAug 23, 2013Sep 14, 2015
#kotd343456310572776
#igsneakercommunity13602505278581
#wdywt18331064181810
#kickstagram12326473504449
#walklikeus14152722792902
#todayskicks8776621624278
#peepmysneaks7836471512316
#kicks0l0gy6059801520375
#SMYFH9003751288167
#solenation4158341249161
#igsneakers4136791106927
#trustedkicks359621723769
Total12,26924,782,735

This information was easily saved and calculated as as a note with emacs orgmode2.


Table 2. Active reseller and news accounts fan base

User_NameFollowed_byFollows
sneakernews39724500
nicekicks18833272021
flightclub11766020
solecollector9424121075
shoezeum6873633
Total8,043,5273,129

It seems that most of these accounts don’t bother with following back.


Table 3. Amount of posts

User_NameMedia
nicekicks8697
sneakernews7348
solecollector4684
flightclub2235
shoezeum2321
Total25,285

2 Link forthcoming