Every month, BIGLOBE releases the top Twitter trends in Japan. �With August recently coming to an end, they�ve compiled their data and have just released their rankings for that month.

This month also features an amusing ranking of "Mood Ranking", which shows the popular emoticons that are used for expressing certain feelings. If you want to go back in time to compare what trended in the past, you can see July and the first half of 2011 rankings here.

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[Word Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. Earthquakes - #1

2. Trains - #2

3. Fireworks - #10

4. Summer Vacation - #7

5. Karaoke - #16

6. Silent Prayer � N/A

7. Osaka - #20

8. Korea � N/A

9. Bunny - #3

10. ANKH - #13

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[Hashtag Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. #tigerbunny (Daily Anime �TIGER&BUNNY�) - #1

2. #yuruyuri (TV Anime �Yuruyuri�) - #10

3. #nitiasa (Super Hero Time, Sunday morning anime) - #2

4. #precure (Asahi Anime �Sweet Precure�) - #3

5. #ohayo (Ohayo~ Club) - #8

6. #30thou (Life is only 30,000 days. Let�s tweet every day and spend it meaningfully) - #4

7. #penguindrum (Anime �Mawaru Penguin Drum�

8. #nowplaying (The music you are listening to at that moment) � N/A

9. #aoex (TV Anime �Aoi no Exorcist�) - #5

10. #followmejp (A request for Japanese users to become followers) - #17

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[Celebrity Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. AKB48 - #1

2. Shimada Shinsuke � NEW

3. Tohoshinki (TVXQ) - #4

4. Matsuda Naoki � NEW

5. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48) - #2

6. Jaejoong - #5

7. Jang Geun Suk - #10

8. Kawagoe Tatsuya - NEW

9. Shoujo Jidai (SNSD) - #7

10. KARA - #6

11. Watanabe Mayu (AKB48) � N/A

12. Yunho � NEW

13. Kanjani8 � NEW

14. Momoiro Clover Z - #17

15. SMAP - #9

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[Mood Ranking]

1. (*�?`*) [Pretty, cute, cool]

2. ????�?`????????� [Being deeply moved, crying]

3. (*???)�???� [An interest, concern]

4. ?|?|? �[To feel down/sad]

5. ((+_+)) ???????� [Injured, sick]

6. (=�??=) [Feeling good, feeling better]

7. (o�?`)=? ????� [To be worn out, sleepy]

8. (????) [ Satisfaction]

9. m9??????????? [Laughing]

10. (lll�??lll)??????!! [Unhappy]

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Period: August 1, 2011 ~ September 1, 2011 4 AM

Number of Tweets: 820,902,690

Average tweets per day: 26,480,731

Day with most tweets: August 26th � 28,822,860 tweets

Popular day and time of the week: Thursday 11 PM � 2,216,190 tweets

Most popular day: Friday � 27,780,085 tweets

Most popular time: 11PM � 2,127,359 tweets

What they�re using to tweet: PC (23.1%), Cellphone (26.7%), PC/Cellphone (14.5%), Smartphone (24.3%), API (BOT)(5.4%), Link service (3.2%)

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Source: BIGLOBE