Every month, BIGLOBE releases the top Twitter trends in Japan. With October recently coming to an end, they’ve compiled their data and have just released their rankings for October.
With the passing of Apple CEO Steve Jobs on October 5th, it’s no surprise that his name was mentioned frequently throughout the rankings.
If you want to go back in time to compare what trended in the past, you can see September’s rankings here.
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[Word Ranking] – [Previous Month]
1. Trains – #2
2. Earthquakes – #1
3. Class – #23
4. Steve – NEW
5. Lateness – N/A
6. Jobs – NEW
7. A break – #5
8. Gundam – NEW
9. Meteorites – NEW
10. au – #15
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[Hashtag Ranking] – [Previous Month]
1. #nitiasa (Super Hero Time, Sunday Morning Anime) – #2
2. #haganai (Anime “Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai”) – NEW
3. #penguindrum (Anime “Mawaru Penguin Drum”) – #7
4. #P4_A (Anime “Persona 4”) – NEW
5. #precure (Sweet Precure) – #5
6. #g_age (Anime “Gundam AGE”) – NEW
7. #ikamusume (TV Tokyo Anime “Shinryaku! Ika Musume”) – N/A
8. #ohayo (Ohayo Club) – #9
9. #imas (TBS Anime “THE IDOLM@STER) – #8
10. #sht (TV Asahi SFX Hero Program “Super Hero Time”) – #10
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[Celebrity Ranking] – [Previous Month]
1. AKB48 – #1
2. Tohoshinki (TVXQ) – #2
3. Jaejoong – #7
4. Steve Jobs – NEW
5. Yunho – #3
6. Changmin – #4
7. Jang Geun Suk – N/A
8. KARA – N/A
9. Momoiro Clover Z – #15
10. Perfume – #9
11. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48) – #11
12. Yoochun – N/A
13. L’Arc~en~Ciel – #14
14. Junsu – N/A
15. SHINee – #16
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Period: October 1, 2011 ~ November 1, 2011 4 AM
Number of Tweets: 555,779,840
Average tweets per day: 17,928,382
Day with most tweets: October 2nd – 28,593,510 tweets
Popular day and time of the week: Sunday 8 PM – 1,541,165 tweets
Most popular day: Sunday – 19,754,688 tweets
Most popular time: 7 PM – 1,453,770 tweets
What they’re using to tweet: PC (22.8%), Cellphone (25.6%), PC/Cellphone (13.3%), Smartphone (26.7%), API (BOT)(5.5%), Link service (3.2%)
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