

It works, too the dog picture has 555 likes as of this writing, and the owl video has 467.

It’s obvious the poster either is trying to game the hashtags or is just spamming popular hastags in hopes of getting exposure. For the “instacat” hashtag I linked above, on the day I’m writing this, one of the top posts is an owl video and another is a picture of a dog. The fact is, there’s little to no filtering going on. Now, there is a lot of mystery surrounding the top posts in a given hashtag. See for yourself, just visit a few hashtags.

Instead, each hashtag has a box of top posts, which tend to change from day to day. Unlike on Twitter, there’s no site-wide trending or top posts box.
