Japan Twitter Trends for July 2011!

Every month, BIGLOBE releases the top Twitter trends in Japan.  With July recently coming to an end, they’ve compiled their data and have just released their rankings for that month.

There are a lot of unique trends this month, including Japanese women’s soccer team Nadeshiko Japan, who won the World Cup!  If you want to go back in time to compare what trended in the past, you can see June and the first half of 2011 rankings here.

Check out the July rankings below!

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[Word Ranking] – [Previous Month]
1. Earthquakes – #1
2. Trains – #2
3. Bunny – #17
4. Japanese Earthquake Level 4 (1 is weak, 7 is devastation) – #31
5. Nadeshiko – NEW
6. Nuclear Power Plant – #3
7. Summer vacation – NEW
8. Japanese Earthquake Level 3 (1 is weak, 7 is devastation) – #22
9. Beer – #21
10. Fireworks – N/A
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[Hashtag Ranking] – [Previous Month]
1. #tigerbunny (Anime ‘TIGER & BUNNY’) – #1
2. #nitiasa (Super Hero Time, Sunday morning anime) – #6
3. #precure (Asahi anime ‘Sweet Precure!’) – #7
4. #30thou (Life is only 30,000 days. Let’s tweet every day and spend it meaningfully) – #2
5. #aoex (TBS anime ‘Aoi no Exorcist’) – #4
6. #penguindrum (Anime ‘Mawaru Penguin Drum’) – NEW
7. #nadeshiko (Nadeshiko Japan) – NEW
8. #ohayo (Ohayo~ Club) – #5
9. #imas (THE IDOLM@STER) – NEW
10. #yuyuyuri (TV Anime ‘Yuruyuri’) – NEW
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[Celebrity Ranking] – [Previous Month]
1. AKB48 – #1
2. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48) – #2
3. Lady Gaga – #8
4. Tohoshinki (TVXQ) – #15
5. Jaejoong – #5
6. KARA – #4
7. Shoujo Jidai (SNSD) – #3
8. B’z – #20
9. SMAP – #18
10. Jang Geun Suk – NEW
11. Yoochun – #14
12. Perfume – #16
13. Junsu – N/A
14. Oikawa Mitsuhiro – NEW
15. Takaoka Sosuke – NEW
16. Changmin – NEW
17. Momoiro Clover Z – NEW
18. NINETY-NINE – NEW
19. Gackt – NEW
20. Choshinsei (Supernova) – NEW
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Period: July 1, 2011 ~ August 1, 2011 4 AM
Number of Tweets: 800,627,770
Average tweets per day: 25,826,990
Day with most tweets: July 18th – 29,485,990 tweets
Popular day and time of the week – Tuesday 11 PM – 2,189,917 tweets
Most popular day: Sunday – 27,413,914 tweets
Most popular time: 11 PM – 2,110,528 tweets
What they’re using to tweet: PC (24.1%), Cellphone (26.8%), PC/Cellphone (14.67%) Smartphone (23.3%), API (BOT)(4.3%), Link service (3.4%)
Source: BIGLOBE