[Info] 120211 Top 20 Japanese celebrities trending on Twitter for January.

1. AKB48 – #1
2. Jaejoong – #7
3. Maeda Atsuko (AKB48) – #14
4. Tohoshinki (TVXQ) – #2
5. Perfume – #6
6. Changmin – #13
7. Yunho – #12
8. EXILE – #3
9. Tokyo Jihen – NEW
10. Matsumoto Jun (Arashi) – NEW
11. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – NEW
12. SKE48 – N/A
13. KARA – #4
14. Gackt – N/A
15. Momoiro Clover Z – #16
16. SHINee – #19
17. Jang Geun Suk – N/A
18. Yoochun – N/A
19. Junsu – N/A
20. Shoujo Jidai (SNSD) – #5

Note: The first number indicates the current position, the second, the position of the previous month.

SHINee has taken three places since last December.

Data Sample
Period: From January 2011 to 1st February 2011 at 4:00
Number of tweets: 1,022,129,750
Average tweets per day: 39,971,927
Day with the most tweets: January 13 - 37,217,800 tweets
Popular day and time of the week: Tuesday at 12:00 - 4,382,020 tweets
Busiest day: Sunday - 172,701,100 tweets
Busiest time: 23:00 -2,290,100 tweets
Method used to tweet: PC (21.5%), mobile (23.3%), Computer/Mobile Phone (11%), Smartphone (35.8%), API/BOT (6.3%), Linkservice (1.8%)

Source: Tokyohive & BIGLOBE
French Translation & Shared By: Nana @ SHINee France
English Translation By: Prince Choi Minho