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

Like last month, the rankings show the effect of AKB48�s 3rd Senbatsu General Election. Additionally, they have released some of the top trends from the first half of 2011!

If you want to go back in time, you can see May�s ranking here.

Check out the June rankings below!

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[Word Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. Earthquakes - #1

2. Trains - #2

3. Nuclear Power Plant - #18

4. Class - #3

5. Earthquake Early Warning - #16

6. Style - #11

7. Lateness - #3

8. Curry - #9

9. Rest - #9

10. Election � N/A

[Hashtag Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. #tigerbunny (Anime �TIGER & BUNNY�) - #5

2. #30thou (Life is only 30,000 days. Let�s tweet every day and spend it meaningfully) - #3

3. #anohara (Anime �Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.�) - #6

4. #aoex (TBS anime �Aoi no Exorcist) - #4

5. #ohayo (Ohayo~ Club) - #7

6. #nitiasa (Super Hero Time, Sunday morning anime) - #1

7. #precure (Asahi anime �Sweet Precure!�) - #2

8. #denpa_girl (Anime �Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko) - #9

9. #hanairo (Anime �Hanasaku Iroha) - #8

10. #agqr (Bunka Broadcasting Digital Radio �Chou A&G�) - #10

[Celebrity Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. AKB48 - #1

2. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48) - #5

3. Shoujo Jidai (SNSD) - #9

4. KARA - #19

5. Jaejoong - #6

6. Kawakami Tomoko � NEW

7. Kashiwagi Yuki (AKB48) - #20

8. Lady Gaga � NEW

9. Watanabe Mayu (AKB48) - #17

10. L�Arc~en~Ciel - #12

11. Horie Takafumi � N/A

12. Itano Tomomi (AKB48) � NEW

13. Sashihara Rino (AKB48) - #16

14. Yoochun - #10

15. Tohoshinki (TVXQ) - #7

16. Perfume - #2

17. Kojima Haruna (AKB48) � NEW

18. SMAP - #18

19. Takahashi Minami (AKB48) � NEW

20. B�z � N/A

[First Half of 2011 Celebrity Ranking]

1. AKB48

2. Jaejoong

3. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48)

4. KARA

5. Tohoshinki (TVXQ)

6. Perfume

7. Shoujo Jidai (SNSD)

8. Yoochun

9. Junsu

10. EXILE

11. aiko

12. SMAP

13. Mr. Children

14. B�z

15. Watanabe Mayu (AKB48)

16. GLAY

17. L�Arc~en~Ciel

18. SKE48

19. Uesugi Takashi

20. Kashiwagi Yuki (AKB48)

Period: June 1, 2011 ~ July 1, 2011 4 AM
Number of Tweets: 715.064,880

Average tweets per day: 23,066,609
Day with most tweets: June 19th � 25,392,140

Popular day and time of the week � Tuesday 11 PM � 2,084,330 tweets
Most popular day: Sunday � 25,187,375 tweets
Most popular time: 11 PM � 2,000,186 tweets
What they�re using to tweet: PC (24.9%), Cell phone (26.9%), PC/Cell phone (15.7%) Smart phone (21.9%), API (BOT)(4.3%), Link service (3.3%)

Source: BIGLOBE