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Trending Twitter topics in Japan (Japanese) and in the US (English)
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Trending Twitter topics in Japan
and the USRika Hashii
Supervised by Adam Acar
MethodOne 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.
Findings
NEWS
Things
in lif
eSp
ort
TV
Chara
cter
Food
Politics #
Mes
sage
Inte
rnet
Mus
ic
Loca
tion
Compa
ny
Other
s0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
2 25
118
1
8
37
84
6
0 0
8
0 0
14
5
0 02
61
2 3 2 3 35
JapanUSA
American trending topics included more hashtags than did the Japanese sample.
Breakdown of Hashtags #
Cartoon film
TV Things in life
Radio CM Event Music Person Word Sport Location0
5
10
15
20
25
30
7
10
12
5
1 1 10 0 0 00
1
28
0 0
5
1
6
910
1
JapanUSA
####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…
To citeHashii, R. (2014). Cross-Cultural Analysis of Trending Topics on Twitter. Unpublished Graduation Thesis. Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Tarumi, Japan.