Every month, BIGLOBE releases a list of the top Twitter trends in Japan. Now that June has come to an end, they�ve compiled their data and revealed their rankings for the month. Many trends this month involved the level 4 typhoon on June 21st, so there is a special ranking of what the top 3 trends were during various hours that day. In addition to that, soccer was also quite popular this month with the championships going on.

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

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[June 19th Level 4 Typhoon Hourly Trends]

-12:00-

1. Warning

2. Class canceled

3. Wind warning

-13:00-

1. Class canceled

2. Wind warning

3. Class

-14:00-

1. Vacation

2. Senior high school students

3. Storm area

-15:00-

1. Karaoke

2. God

3. Death penalty

-16:00-

1. Rain and wind

2. Karaoke

3. Club activities

-17:00-

1. Level 4 typhoon

2. Hitting land

3. Route

-18:00-

1. Vacation

2. Hitting land

3. Croquette

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[Word Ranking] � [Most Popular Day]

1. Typhoon � June 19th

2. Soccer � June 12th

3. Trial � June 12th

4. Honda � June 12th

5. Italy � June 10th

6. Election � June 6th

7. AKB � June 6th

8. PK � June 12th

9. Germany � June 29th

10. Balotelli �June 29th

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[Hashtag Ranking]

1. #precure (Anime �Precure�)

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

3. #twithitter (Twitter baseball simulation game)

4. #euro2012 (UEFA EURO2012)

5. #nitiasa (Sunday morning anime)

6. #nyaruko (Anime �Hai yore! NYARUKO-san�)

7. #anisonzanmai (NHK-FM 1 day of anime songs)

8. #g_age (Anime �Gundam AGE�)

9. #sougofollow (Welcoming followers)

10. #agqr (Bunka Broadcasting Digital Radio �Cho! A&G��)

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[Celebrity Ranking]

1. AKB48

2. Sashihara Rino (AKB48)

3. Momoiro Clover Z

4. Watanabe Mayu (AKB48)

5. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48)

6. EXILE

7. BIG BANG

8. Tohoshinki (TVXQ)

9. SHINee

10. Jaejoong (JYJ)

11. Yunho (TVXQ)

12. Changmin (TVXQ)

13. Mr. Children

14. Junsu (JYJ)

15. SKE48

16. Kis-My-Ft2

17. Kashiwagi Yuki (AKB48)

18. Kanjani 8

19. Yoochun (JYJ)

20. aiko

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Period: June 1, 2012 ~ July 1, 2012 4 AM

Number of Tweets: 1,222,753,800

Average tweets per day: 40,758,460

Day with most tweets: June 19th� � 45,508,730 tweets

Most popular day: Sunday � 44,225,522 tweets

What they�re using to tweet: PC (21%), Cellphone (12.3%), PC/Cellphone (8.3%), Smartphone (48.5%), API (BOT)(7.8%), Link service (1.7%)

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Source: BIGLOBE