A Survey on Hashtag Recommendations

As the need for recommending most customized products is increasing in order to boost up sales and thus the profits, it has become necessary to make the recommendations more and more targeted towards the end user. While a lot of research has been done on video recommendations for Netflix/YouTube, product recommendations for Amazon/Flipkart, Friend/User Profile recommendations on Facebook/LinkedIn, not much research has been done on hashtag recommendations which have become an integral part of these platforms now. In this paper, we provide a glimpse of hashtag recommendations that have been implemented in various fields and also provide a scope of future work.