The Banned Hashtags of Instagram

http://thedatapack.com/banned-hashtags-instagram/

by nickdrewe • 13 years ago

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jpttsn• 13 years ago

This list contains eg. both #sex and #thesexpistols. It seems more likely that anything containing the substring "sex" is banned. The list, then, is just examples, rather than some exhaustive, official blacklist.

statusgraph• 13 years ago

Exactly; same same with "fuck"

CountHackulus• 13 years ago

It's the only way I could explain #fuckthelaw being banned but #fuckthepolice not being on that list.

davidland• 13 years ago

rather funny how hashtags like #iphone4 and #iphone4s are banned, but #iphone5 isn't..

eaxbin• 13 years ago

#iloveitwhenhemakesthisexpression Is also banned :D

pcunite• 13 years ago

Is #iDoNotCare also banned?

dccoolgai• 13 years ago

Interesting...George Carlin would be proud.

dan1234• 13 years ago

I wonder how many lists the person who searched for that lot is now on?

epynonymous• 13 years ago

not sure about everyone else, but the first one i looked for starts with an "n", but it didn't make the list, how come?

ZoF• 13 years ago

People used to call me a ninny all the time, I don't think it should be banned though.

I agree though, imo the word you're thinking of is probably banned and the linked list is not a complete/exhaustive one.

prawojaz• 13 years ago

The n-word is banned. Apparently one can test for this one self by searching her: https://hashpix.herokuapp.com/

If the word is banned you will get an error message saying "Instagram: (400) APINotAllowedError-This tag cannot be viewed" at the top.

jgeorge• 13 years ago

If you're saying that "cotton headed ninny muggins" isn't on the banned list, then I am officially offended.

mrcactu5• 13 years ago

i didn't know you could put that on instagram...

DjangoReinhardt3• 13 years ago

You can always use it for good, you know. ;)

The Instagram API returns an APINotAllowedError (response code 400) when you search for one of these hashtags. I'm using it to automatically identify and categorize NSFW hashtags for one of my projects, HashPix. You can see it in action at http://hashpix.herokuapp.com/

parennoob• 13 years ago

Why is #thinsipration banned again?

In a country with 35.7% obesity (e.g. 203 pounds at 5'9" = obese), you'd think it would be a good thing to let people inspire others to get back to normal weight.

alxhill• 13 years ago

Because 'thinspiration' is not about encouraging people to lose weight, it's encouraging anorexia/

cdonnellytx• 13 years ago

Looks like a clear case of the Scunthorpe problem:

http://hashpix.herokuapp.com/s/scunthorpe (thanks @DjangoReinhardt!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

(EDIT: still can't format comments correctly)

DjangoReinhardt3• 13 years ago

Heh, good catch! :P

I've been lazy about writing a good filter to weed out the nasty ones. I considered quite a few approaches - ranging from an NLTK-based algo to basic brute-force list-search with word-stemming. Then I realized, it would take me a lot more time to develop that, than the rest of the project.

So, I chose the easy way out. Turn out it saved me quite a bit of effort, too. :)

cfesta9• 13 years ago

#knockers

The Banned Hashtags of Instagram

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