Every month, BIGLOBE releases a list of the top Twitter trends in Japan. Now that February has come to an end, they’ve compiled their data and have revealed their rankings for that month.
(If you want to go back in time and compare what trended in the past, you can check out January’s rankings here.)
==
[Word Ranking] – [Previous Month]
1. Earthquakes – #1
2. Trains – #2
3. Chocolate – NEW
4. Valentine – N/A
5. Vacation – N/A
6. Precure – 12
7. Karaoke – N/A
8. Lateness – #3
9. Olive oil – NEW
10. Earthquake Early Warning – #7
–
[Hashtag Ranking] – [Previous Month]
1. #precure (Smile Precure!) – #2
2. #nitiasa (Super Hero Time Sunday Morning Anime) – #1
3. #nowplaying (What music they’re listening to now) – N/A
4. #g_age (Anime ‘Gundam AGE’) – #3
5. #inuboku (TV Anime ‘Youko x Boku SS’ official hashtag) – #13
6. #agqr (Bunka Broadcasting Digital Radio ‘Chou! A&G’) – #12
7. #natsumachi (Anime ‘Ano Natsu de Matteru’) – #6
8. #sht (Super Hero Time) – #9
9. #amagamiss (Game/Anime ‘AMAGAMI SS’ and ‘AMAGAMI SS+ plus’) – #7
10. #papakiki (TV Anime ‘PAPA no I Koto wo Kikinasai!’) – #4
–
[February 14th Retweet Ranking]
1. A middle school teacher’s instructions on giving out “Valentine’s Day” cards. http://t.co/s3cN1P10
2. At Mei Station hahahaha There are some awesome horses with signs saying “Please give me chocolate” hahahahaha http://twitpic.com/8jm6rh
3. This morning on the train there was a group of three high school girls who were drinking tea and saying things like ‘To the friends I am irritated with, I want to say farewell by giving them Pocky and Kit Kats’ ‘Snap our relationship goodbye Pocky’ ‘I just want to cut our relationship’ ‘I’ll give Toppo to friends I like’ ‘Like this (Toppo) is great until the very end, so (I want our relationship) to continue like this into eternity’.
4. Be careful not to have an accident like this in real life, having this happen makes me not want to eat (chocolate). http://twitpic.com/8jo1oq
5. This is great. What an amusing valentine, really respect him. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Arufa/touch/20100214
6. Friend: “Teacher, please put the sweets somewhere else!” Math Teacher: “Huh? Is that okay? Should I look at it?” Friend: “Please don’t look at it! Wait until a future date when you’re angry with me…” Math Teacher: “I’ll look forward to it on the day you graduate then”, That teacher was so cool and my friend was cute hahahaha
7. The horse asking for chocolates at Nagoya Station got yelled at http://twitpic.com/8jmuhn
8. Boys of the world, these are the Valentines at this girls’ only school. Sorry. http://yfrog.com/kenzegej
9. The chocolate I got from my friend was crazy http://p.twipple.jp/iXnwg
10. [Valentine Plan] Seven (Eleven) wasn’t kidding when they said they would have all the Umaibo in the market! Hahahahahahaha #UmaiboValentine http://twitpic.com/8jf1s8
–
[Celebrity Ranking] – [Previous Month]
1. AKB48 – #1
2. Yunho – #7
3. Changmin – #6
4. Momoiro Clover Z – #15
5. Jaejoong – #2
6. L’Arc~en~Ciel – N/A
7. Tohoshinki (TVXQ) – #4
8. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48) – #3
9. Takahashi Minami (AKB48) – N/A
10. Perfume – #5
11. Watanabe Mayu (AKB48) – N/A
12. Jang Geun Suk – #17
13. KAT-TUN – N/A
14. Yoochun – #18
15. Junsu – #19
16. Tokyo Jihen – #9
17. EXILE – #8
18. JYJ – NEW
19. KARA – #13
20. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
–
Period: February 1, 2011 ~ March 1, 2011 4 AM
Number of Tweets: 1,020,349,800
Average tweets per day: 35,184,476
Day with most tweets: February 6th – 38,794,200 tweets
Popular day and time of the week: Monday 11 PM – 3,092,400 tweets
Most popular day: Friday – 185,090,400 tweets
Most popular time: 11 PM – 2,952,176 tweets
What they’re using to tweet: PC (27.1%), Cellphone (20.4%), PC/Cellphone (8.4%), Smartphone (37.3%), API (BOT)(5.3%), Link service (1.3%)
source
