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

With the passing of Apple CEO Steve Jobs on October 5th, it�s no surprise that his name was mentioned frequently throughout the rankings.

If you want to go back in time to compare what trended in the past, you can see September�s rankings here.

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[Word Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. Trains - #2

2. Earthquakes - #1

3. Class - #23

4. Steve � NEW

5. Lateness � N/A

6. Jobs � NEW

7. A break - #5

8. Gundam � NEW

9. Meteorites � NEW

10. au - #15

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[Hashtag Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. #nitiasa (Super Hero Time, Sunday Morning Anime) - #2

2. #haganai (Anime �Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai�) � NEW

3. #penguindrum (Anime �Mawaru Penguin Drum�) - #7

4. #P4_A (Anime �Persona 4�) � NEW

5. #precure (Sweet Precure) - #5

6. #g_age (Anime �Gundam AGE�) � NEW

7. #ikamusume (TV Tokyo Anime �Shinryaku! Ika Musume�) � N/A

8. #ohayo (Ohayo Club) - #9

9. #imas (TBS Anime �THE IDOLM@STER) - #8

10. #sht (TV Asahi SFX Hero Program �Super Hero Time�) - #10

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[Celebrity Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. AKB48 - #1

2. Tohoshinki (TVXQ) - #2

3. Jaejoong - #7

4. Steve Jobs � NEW

5. Yunho - #3

6. Changmin - #4

7. Jang Geun Suk � N/A

8. KARA � N/A

9. Momoiro Clover Z - #15

10. Perfume - #9

11. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48) - #11

12. Yoochun � N/A

13. L�Arc~en~Ciel - #14

14. Junsu � N/A

15. SHINee - #16

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Period: October 1, 2011 ~ November 1, 2011 4 AM

Number of Tweets: 555,779,840

Average tweets per day: 17,928,382

Day with most tweets: October 2nd � 28,593,510 tweets

Popular day and time of the week: Sunday 8 PM � 1,541,165 tweets

Most popular day: Sunday � 19,754,688 tweets

Most popular time: 7 PM � 1,453,770 tweets

What they�re using to tweet: PC (22.8%), Cellphone (25.6%), PC/Cellphone (13.3%), Smartphone (26.7%), API (BOT)(5.5%), Link service (3.2%)

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Source: BIGLOBE