Every month, BIGLOBE releases a list of the top Twitter trends in Japan. Now that April has come to an end, they�ve compiled their data and revealed their rankings for the month. Many trends have to do with the anniversary of the great Tohoku earthquake for the month of April 2012.

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

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[Word Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. Trains - #2

2. Earthquakes - #1

3. Class � N/A

4. Vacation - #5

5. Flower viewing � N/A

6. GW � NEW

7. Karaoke - #3

8. Lateness - #25

9. Club activities - #22

10. Beautiful - #18

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[Hashtag Ranking] � [Previous Month]

1. #precure (TV anime �Precure�) - #1

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

3. #countkun (Tweet Counter, Count-kun) � NEW

4. #nitiasa (Sunday morning anime) - #3

5. #nicovideo (Nico Nico Douga) - #4

6. #nyaruko (Anime �Hoi yore! NYARUKO-chan�) � NEW

7. #g_age (Anime � Gundam Age�) - #9

8. #agqr (Bunka Broadcasting Digital Radio �Cho! A&G�) - #5

9. #sht (Super Hero Time) - #10

10. #seiya (Anime �Saint Seiya�) - NEW

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[Celebrity Ranking]

1. AKB48

2. Yunho

3. Tohoshinki (TVXQ)

4. Momoiro Clover Z

5. Changmin

6. Mr. Children

7. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48)

8. Kis-My-Ft2

9. KAT-TUN

10. Perfume

11. Jaejoong

12. EXILE

13. Junsu

14. KARA

15. SHINee

16. BIG BANG

17. JYJ

18. Yoochun

19. Aiba Masaki (Arashi)

20. SMAP

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Period: April 1, 2012 ~ May 1, 2012 4 AM

Number of Tweets: 1,125,389,710

Average tweets per day: 37,512,990

Day with most tweets: April 3rd � 45,621,930 tweets

Most popular day: Sunday � 40,895,346 tweets

What they�re using to tweet: PC (21.0%), Cellphone (14.7%), PC/Cellphone (9.4%), Smartphone (45.7%), API (BOT)(7.0%), Link service (1.9%)

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Source: BIGLOBE