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Japan's Twitter Ranking, November 2010: #4 Ika Musume
posted on by Egan Loo
Twipple Trend, BIGLOBE's information site for Twitter users, has announced on Monday its November ranking chart for the Twitter social networking service in Japan. The site reports that Japanese users sent 360,653,206 tweets in November, an increase of 9.6% compared to October's 329 million. (There were 140 million tweets in March.) The most discussed topics included the headline news, as well as anime. The top 10 words were:
| Rank | Prev. Rank | Term | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | jishin | earthquake |
| 2 | 1 | densha | train |
| 3 | - | ryūshutsu | leak |
| 4 | 4 | chikoku | I'm late |
| 5 | - | ōgiri | final |
| 6 | - | Kangoku | Korea |
| 7 | - | Senkaku | Senkaku Islands |
| 8 | - | Kita Chōsen | North Korea |
| 9 | 6 | Nihon | Japan |
| 10 | 16 | NHK | Japan Broadcasting Corporation |
The top 10 hashtags were:
| Rank | Prev. Rank | Term | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | #4ji | Automatic tweet application |
| 2 | 2 | #mobaboo | Sanyo Eneloop campaign |
| 3 | - | #anisondaijiten | NHK-FM special AniSon Daijiten |
| 4 | 3 | #ikamusume | TV Tokyo anime Shinryaku! Ika Musume (Squid Girl) |
| 5 | 5 | #ohayo | Ohayo~ Club |
| 6 | 6 | #sutadora | TBS anime Star Driver Kagayaki no Takuto |
| 7 | - | #nhkfm | NHK-FM special AniSon Daijiten |
| 8 | 4 | #precure | TV Asahi anime Heartcatch Precure! |
| 9 | 8 | #oreimo | Tokyo MX anime Oreimo |
| 10 | 13 | #soremachi | TBS anime Sore de mo Machi wa Mawatteiru |
The top people discussed on Japanese Tweets were:
- Hero (Kim Jaejoong)
- The Beatles
- Kara
- Hiro Mizushima
- Perfume
- AKB48
- Tohoshinki
- Ikimono-gakari
- Micky (Park Yoochun)
- Xiah (Kim Junsu)
The busiest day of the month for Japanese Twitter users was November 28 (15,666,560 tweets), and the busiest day of the week was Sunday (average of 13,584,673 tweets). The busiest time of the day is the 10:00 p.m. hour (average of 942,931 tweets). Users posted 28.6% of their tweets from personal computers, 28.1% from mobile devices, 16.8% from either one, 13.6% from smartphones, 5.6% from APIs (application programming interface used by bots and other automated programs), and 3.2% from link services.
The most retweeted tweet was "Minna, tadaima!!" ("Everyone, I'm home!!") from @Hayabusa_JAXA, the blog reporting on the return of the Japanese unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa. It was retweeted 8,320 times.
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