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

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