Create a distinct newsfeed item for tags and branching existing commits (BB-8168)

I have a git repo on bitbucket.
My local git repo is fully up to date with respect to the repo on bitbucket.

Then, on some branch, do:

git tag <some_name>
git push --tags

The overview tab for the repo on bitbucket reports that I have pushed (in my instance) 24 commits, but doesn't say I have pushed a tag. Is this intended behaviour? It is slightly confusing.