Most Popular Tags on Medium and Why They Dominate the Platform

Medium has become a go-to platform for writers, thinkers, and creatives who want to share their ideas with a vast audience.

Ember Celeste
4 min readAug 19, 2024

The use oftags is one the features that make this platform unique and helps in the discovery of content. Use tags to group related articles together so that interested readers can discover more in the same vein. As is the nature of popular media however, tagging has evolved over time and some tags are more fashionable than others depending on trends or prevailing societal topics being discussed across any — mostly western millennial-dominated! We will take a look at some of the most popular tags on Medium and why they are so frequently used.

1. Technology

The “Tech” tag is one of the most read tags in Medium, and for good reason. Technology is present in almost all areas of contemporary life, from communication to work and other media. The articles that fall under this tag frequently delve into the most recent developments in areas like AI, blockchain, cybersecurity, and software development. Given the breakneck speed of technological evolution, there will always be new subjects to discuss so this tag is as appropriate as ever. And second, the tag is very popular in Medium for…

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Ember Celeste
Ember Celeste

Written by Ember Celeste

Hi, my name is Celeste, I'm 22 years old and I'm very happy to be here, I love to write , I chose to join Medium, because I really like interacting with others!