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Japan's Twitter Ranking, April 2010: K-On, Precure, More
posted on by Egan Loo
Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: Twipple Trend, BIGLOBE's information site for Twitter users, has announced on Monday that it will be posting monthly ranking charts for the Twitter social networking service in Japan. The site reports that Japanese users sent 170,358,200 tweets in April, an increase of over 20% compared to March's 140 million tweets. The most discussed topics included the new live-action spring television series and other programs, as well as anime. The top 10 words were:
| 1 | jishin | earthquake |
| 2 | dorama | live-action scripted television series |
| 3 | Gachapin | green dinosaur character on the Hirake! Ponkikki children's television program |
| 4 | densha | train |
| 5 | K-On | manga/anime franchise |
| 6 | Main | Cookin' Idol Ai! Mai! Main! anime |
| 7 | syy | Say! You Young radio program for character voices |
| 8 | Ayu | Ayumi Hamasaki |
| 9 | chikoku | I'm late |
| 10 | Precure | anime franchise |
The top 10 hashtags were:
| 1 | #agpr | Chō!A&G+ radio service on anime, games, and character voices |
| 2 | #sunanare | Sunao ni Narenakute/hard to say i love you dorama about five friends who meet via Twitter |
| 3 | #k_on | K-ON! |
| 4 | #mc1242 | MuComi+ radio program |
| 5 | #ohayo | Ohayo~ Club |
| 6 | #keion | K-ON! |
| 7 | #AngelBeats | Angel Beats! anime |
| 8 | #syy | Say! You Young |
| 9 | #arakawa_ub | Arakawa Under the Bridge anime |
| 10 | #Precure | anime franchise |
The busiest day of the month for Japanese Twitter users was April 25 (6,518,220 tweets), and the busiest day of the week was Thursday (average of 5,779,112 tweets). The busiest time of the day is the 10:00 p.m. hour (average of 431,004 tweets). Users posted 44% of their tweets from personal computers, 33% from mobile devices, and 7% from APIs (application programming interface used by bots and other automated programs).
Sources: Presepe News, Internet Watch
