Japan Twitter Trends for 2011!

 

Even though the year isn’t quite finished yet, BIGLOBE has compiled a list of the top Twitter trends for 2011. Many of the rankings aren’t surprising, especially those related to the Great Tohoku Earthquake this past March.

Check out the 2011 trends below and look forward to the list of November’s trends soon!

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[Word Ranking (Most Popular Day)] – [Previous Year]

1. Earthquakes (March 11th) – #1

2. Trains (September 21st) – #2

3. Blackout (March 13th) – NEW

4. Nuclear Power Plant (March 14th) – NEW

5. Earthquake Early Warning (June 3rd) – NEW

6. Area struck by disaster (March 14th) – NEW

7. Holiday (September 21st) – NEW

8. Earthquake scale level 3 (March 15th) – NEW

9. Aftershock (March 11th) – NEW

10. Lateness (January 17th) – #5

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[Hashtag Ranking (Most Popular Day)] – [Previous Year]

1. #nitiasa (May 22nd) – Super Hero Time, Sunday Morning Anime – #10

2. #precure (January 30th) – Asahi Anime ‘Heart Catch Precure!’ & ‘Sweet Precure’ – #4

3. #ohayo (April 6th) – Ohayo Club – #3

4. #tigerbunny (September 17th) – Mainichi Anime ‘TIGER & BUNNY’ – NEW

5. #30thou (June 19th) – Life is only 30,000 days. Let’s tweet every day to the fullest. – NEW

6. #madoka_magica (April 21st) – Mainichi anime ‘Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica’ – NEW

7. #agqr (April 8th) – Bunka Broadcasting Digital Radio ‘Chou! A&G’ – #5

8. #aoex (May 22nd) – TBS anime ‘Ao no Exorcist’ – NEW

9. #sutadora (April 3rd) – TBS anime ‘STAR DRIVER’ – NEW

10. #sht (September 4th) – TV Asahi Special Hero Program Super Hero Time – NEW

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[Celebrity Ranking] – Most Popular Day

1. AKB48 – June 9th

2. Jaejoong – April 19th

3. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48) – June 9th

4. Tohoshinki (TVXQ) – January 28th

5. KARA – January 19th

6. Perfume – May 13th

7. Shoujo Jidai (SNSD) – May 13th

8. Yoochun – March 7th

9. Junsu – March 8th

10. SMAP – March 21st

11. EXILE – May 18th

12. Mr. Children – May 15th

13. B’z – July 25th

14. Watanabe Mayu (AKB48) – June 9th

15. aiko – March 4th

16. GLAY – October 23rd

17. Choshinsei (Supernova) – February 2nd

18. L’Arc~en~Ciel – October 14th

19. Changmin (Tohoshinki) – July 22nd

20. SKE48 – March 9th

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Period: January 1, 2011 ~ November 1, 2011 4 AM

Number of Tweets: 6,849,886,070

Average number of Tweets per day: 22,532,520

Day with the most Tweets: September 21st – 34,191,420 tweets

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Source: BIGLOBE