diff --git a/src/components/status/status.js b/src/components/status/status.js
index 5b3d98c3ad..ea4c2b9dfb 100644
--- a/src/components/status/status.js
+++ b/src/components/status/status.js
@@ -274,6 +274,9 @@ const Status = {
     },
     ownStatus () {
       return this.status.user.id === this.$store.state.users.currentUser.id
+    },
+    tags () {
+      return this.status.tags.filter(tagObj => tagObj.hasOwnProperty('name')).map(tagObj => tagObj.name).join(' ')
     }
   },
   components: {
diff --git a/src/components/status/status.vue b/src/components/status/status.vue
index aea5b78b04..e1dd81ac93 100644
--- a/src/components/status/status.vue
+++ b/src/components/status/status.vue
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         </div>
       </div>
 
-      <div :class="[userClass, { highlighted: userStyle, 'is-retweet': retweet && !inConversation }]" :style="[ userStyle ]" class="media status">
+      <div :class="[userClass, { highlighted: userStyle, 'is-retweet': retweet && !inConversation }]" :style="[ userStyle ]" class="media status" :data-tags="tags">
         <div v-if="!noHeading" class="media-left">
           <router-link :to="userProfileLink" @click.stop.prevent.capture.native="toggleUserExpanded">
             <UserAvatar :compact="compact" :betterShadow="betterShadow" :user="status.user"/>
diff --git a/src/services/entity_normalizer/entity_normalizer.service.js b/src/services/entity_normalizer/entity_normalizer.service.js
index 8e41358471..46ca760264 100644
--- a/src/services/entity_normalizer/entity_normalizer.service.js
+++ b/src/services/entity_normalizer/entity_normalizer.service.js
@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ export const parseStatus = (data) => {
 
     output.statusnet_html = addEmojis(data.content, data.emojis)
 
+    output.tags = data.tags
+
     if (data.pleroma) {
       const { pleroma } = data
       output.text = pleroma.content ? data.pleroma.content['text/plain'] : data.content