Trending Twitter topics in Japan (Japanese) and in the US (English)

1. Trending Twitter topics
in Japan and the US
Rika Hashii
Supervised by Adam Acar

2. Method
One of my seminar students’ graduation thesis was
about the analysis of Japanese and American
trending topics.
She collected the trending topics both in English and
Japanese exactly at the same time (12 midnight Japan
time) for 10 days. At the end, she had 100 Japanese
trends collected over 10 days and 100 American
trending topics collected over 10 days.

3. Findings
70
61
60
50
40
37
30
Japan
USA
20
14
10
2
0
0
2
5
0
11
5
8
8
0
10
8
2
2
43
8
6
2
0
3
0
3
5
American trending topics included more hashtags than did the
Japanese sample.

4. Breakdown of Hashtags
#
30
28
25
20
15
Japan
12
10
10
7
5
USA
10
9
6
5
5
0
1
0
1
0
1
1 1
0
0
0
Word
Sport
0
1
0
Cartoon
film
TV
Things in
life
Radio
CM
Event
Music
Person
Location
####Americans tend to talk about about things in life such as
#HowImetwithmybestfriend, #Iamhappybecause, #IfIhad1milliondolars, etc.
####Japanese love to talk about anime and TV and, interestingly, radio programs…

5. To cite
Hashii, R. (2014). Cross-Cultural Analysis of Trending
Topics on Twitter. Unpublished Graduation Thesis.
Kobe City University of Foreign
Studies, Tarumi, Japan.