php wp_insert data on front using a form

Use ‘tags_input’ instead of ‘post_tags’.

See here in the notes:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post

You could use wp_set_post_tags() function:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_set_post_tags

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