Every month, BIGLOBE releases a list of the top Twitter trends in Japan. Now that October has come to an end, they�ve compiled their data and revealed their rankings for the month.

(If you want to go back in time and compare what trended in the past, you can check out September�s ranking here.)

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[Word Ranking] � [Most Popular Day]

1. Halloween � October 31st

2. Magi � October 7th

3. Typhoon � October 1st

4. Wolfrun � October 21st

5. Soccer � October 16th

6. Tokyo Giants � October 22nd

7. iPad � October 23rd

8. France � October 13th

9. Costume � October 31st

10. Fuji TV � October 14th

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[Hashtag Ranking]

1. #precure (TV anime �Precure�)

2. #nowplaying (What they�re listening to now)

3. #nitiasa (Sunday morning anime)

4. #hidamari (TV anime �Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb�)

5. #TweetHitter (Twitter Baseball simulation game)

6. #chu2koi (TV anime �Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!�)

7. #magi (TV anime �Magi�)

8. #agqr (Radio program �Cho! A&G+�)

9. #busoushinki (TV anime �Busoushinki�)

10. #AkaiitoNoOnna (Midday drama �Akaiito no Onna�)

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[Baseball Player Ranking]

1. Nakata Sho (Nippon Ham-Fighters, infielder)

2. Chouno Hisayoshi (Giants, outfielder)

3. Abe Shinosuke (Giants, catcher)

4. Inaba Atsunori (Nippon Ham-Fighters, outfielder)

5. John Bowker (Giants, outfielder)

6. Itoi Yoshio (Nippon Ham-Fighters, outfielder)

7. Sakamoto Hayato (Giants, infielder)

8. Darvish Yu (Commentator)

9. Tadano Kazuhito (Nippon Ham-Fighters, pitcher)

10. Sawamura Hirokazu (Giants, pitcher)

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[Celebrity Ranking]

1. AKB48

2. Momoiro Clover Z

3. Changmin (TVXQ)

4. Tohoshinki (TVXQ)

5. SHINee

6. Kanjani8

7. EXILE

8. Yunho (TVXQ)

9. Jaejoong (JYJ)

10. SMAP

11. Maeda Atsuko

12. Mr. Children

13. Kis-My-Ft2

14. JYJ

15. Shoujo Jidai (SNSD)

16. Ohno Satoshi (Arashi)

17. SKE48

18. BIG BANG

19. Junsu (JYJ)

20. Yamashita Tomohisa

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Period: October 1, 2012 ~ October 31, 2012 4 AM

Number of Tweets: 1,432,573,830

Average tweets per day: 46,212,059

Day with most tweets: October 8th �50,929,100 tweets

Most popular day: Sunday � 49,988,293 tweets

What they�re using to tweet: PC (17.1%), Cellphone (9.1%), PC/Cellphone (6.3%), Smartphone (56.1%), API (BOT)(9.6%), Link service (1.5%), iPad (0.3%)

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Source: BIGLOBE