Every month, BIGLOBE releases the top Twitter trends in Japan. With April recently coming to an end, they’ve compiled their data and have just released their rankings for April. One month after the Great Tohoku Earthquake, you can still see the effects via the social media medium.

If you want to go back in time, you can see March’s ranking here.

Check out the April rankings below!

[Word Ranking] – [Previous Month]

1. Earthquakes - #1

2. Trains - #4

3. Earthquake Early Warning - #18

4. Aftershock - #11

5. Japanese earthquake scale level 3 (1 = weak 7 = devestation) - #27

6. Japanese earthquake scale level 4 - #32

7. Ishihara – NEW

8. Hypocenter – NEW

9. Area struck by disaster - #2

10. Lateness - Repeated

[Hashtag Ranking] – [Previous Month]

1. #madoka_magica (Anime “Mahoushoujo Madoka MAGICA” - Repeated

2. #precure (Asahi anime “Heart Catch Precure!”) - #4

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

4. #agqr (Bunka Broadcasting Digital Radio “Chou A&G”) – Repeated

5. #ohayo (Ohayo~ Club) - #2

6. #tigerbunny (Anime “TIGER & BUNNY”) – NEW

7. #syy (Bunka Broadcasting Digital Radio Special Program) – Repeated

8. #moshidora (NHK anime “MoshiDORA”) – NEW

9. #denpa_girl (Anime “Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko”) – NEW

10. #iwakamiyasumi (Free journalist Iwakami Yasumi) – NEW

[Celebrity Ranking]

1. AKB48

2. Jaejoong

3. Saito Kazuyoshi

4. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48)

5. Candies

Period: April 1, 2011 ~ May 1, 2011 4 AM
Number of Tweets: 660,431,290
Average tweets per day: 22,014,376
Day with most tweets: April 6th – 26,885,990
Popular day and time of the week – Thursday 11 PM – 2,072,475 tweets
Most popular day: Sunday – 22,706,675 tweets
Most popular time: 11 PM – 1,858,980 tweets
What they’re using to tweet: PC (25.4%), Cellphone (27.6%), PC/Cellphone (16.4%) Smartphone (19.6%), API (BOT)(4.3%), Link service (3.3%)

Source: BIGLOBE