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

This month, AKB48 dominated the celebrity ranking due to their 3rd Senbatsu General Election, so rather than list all the celebrities that trended, BIGLOBE has ranked the AKB48 members.

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

Check out the May rankings below!

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[Word Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. Earthquakes - #1

2. Trains - #2

3. Class - #26

4. Lateness - #10

5. Kodama Kiyoshi � NEW

6. Rest - #16

7. Barcelona � NEW

8. Uehara Miyu � NEW

9. Curry � N/A

10. EKU - NEW

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[Hashtag Ranking] � [Previous Month]

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

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

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

4.#aoex (TBS anime �Aoi no Excorcist�) - #11

5. #tigerbunny (Anime �TIGER & BUNNY�) - #6

6. #anohana (Anime �Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.�) - #16

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

8. #hanairo (Anime �Hanasaku Iroha) - #13

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

10. #agqr (Bunka Broadcasting Digital Radio �Chou A&G�) - #4

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[AKB48 Single Senbatsu General Election Candidates]

1. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48 Team A)

2. Oshima Yuko (AKB48 Team K)

3. Itano Tomomi (AKB48 Team K)

4. Kashiwagi Yuki (AKB48 Team B)

5. Shinoda Mariko (AKB48 Team A)

6. Takahashi Minami (AKB48 Team A)

7. Minegishi Minami (AKB48 Team K)

8. Kojima Haruna (AKB48 Team A)

9. Matsui Rena (SKE48 Team S)

10. Watanabe Mayu (AKB48 Team B)

11. Akimoto Sayaka (AKB48 Team K)

12. Sashihara Rino (AKB48 Team A)

13. Miyazawa Sae (AKB48 Team K)

14. Yokoyama Yui (AKB48 Team K)

15. Yamamoto Sayaka (NMB48 Team N)

16. Hata Sawako (SKE48 Team KII)

17. Matsui Jurina (SKE48 Team S)

18. Takajo Aki (AKB48 Team A)

19. Kasai Tomomi (AKB48 Team B)

20. Masuda Yuka (AKB48 Team B)

21. Sato Amina (AKB48 Team B)

22. Kuramochi Asuka (AKB48 Team A)

23. Ichikawa Miori (AKB48 Team Research Student)

24. Sato Sumire (AKB48 Team B)

25. Fujie Reina (AKB48 Team K)

26. Kitahara Rie (AKB48 Team B)

27. Takayanagi Akane (SKE48 Team KII)

28. Maeda Ami (AKB48 Team A)

29. Matsui Sakiko (AKB48 Team K)

30. Nakagawa Haruka (AKB48 Team A)

31. Kobayashi Kana (AKB48 Team B)

32. Oota Aika (AKB48 Team A)

33. Ishida Haruka (AKB48 Team B)

34. Oba Mina (AKB48 Team Research Student)

35. Umeda Ayaka (AKB48 Team K)

36. Miyazaki Miho (AKB48 Team B)

37. Oya Masana (SKE48 Team S)

38. Uchida Mayumi (AKB48 Team K)

39. Nito Moeno (AKB48 Team K)

40. Kikuchi Ayaka (AKB48 Team K)

41. Nakaya Sayaka (AKB48 Team A)

42.Yagami Kumi (SKE48 Team S)

43. Hirajima Natsumi (AKB48 Team B)

44. Komori Mika (AKB48 Team B)

45. Yamauchi Suzuran (AKB48 Team Research Student)

46. Mori Anna (AKB48 Team Research Student)

47. Nakata Chisato (AKB48 Team A)

48. Kizaki Yuria (SKE48 Team S)

49. Oya Shizuka (AKB48 Team A)

50. Tanabe Miku (AKB48 Team K)

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Period: May 1, 2011 ~ June 1, 2011 4 AM
Number of Tweets: 726,477,390
Average tweets per day: 23,434,754
Day with most tweets: May 29th � 25,525,300
Popular day and time of the week � Wednesday 11 PM � 2,022,275 tweets
Most popular day: Sunday � 24,705,800 tweets
Most popular time: 11 PM � 1,985,705 tweets
What they�re using to tweet: PC (24.4%), Cell phone (27%), PC/Cell phone (16.2%) Smart phone (20.9%), API (BOT)(4.3%), Link service (3.4%)

Source: BIGLOBE