A list of the top 20 Japanese voice actresses ranked by their number of Twitter followers was posted on the Seiyu Fan blog on Thursday.
The rankings are as follows:
| Rank | Number of Followers | Name | Selected Anime |
| 1 | 249,506 | Aya Hirano | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Fairy Tail, Death Note |
| 2 | 147,232 | Yukari Tamura | Black Butler, C³, Naruto |
| 3 | 110,963 | Rie Tanaka | Arakawa Under the Bridge, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, Chobits |
| 4 | 108,090 | Eri Kitamura | Chaos;HEAd, Last Exile, Bakemonogatari |
| 5 | 87,932 | Marina Inoue | Gurren Lagann, Minami-ke, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai |
| 6 | 81,270 | Emiri Katō | Seitokai Yakuindomo, Lucky Star, Black Butler |
| 7 | 72,038 | Asami Imai | Steins;Gate, The IDOLM@STER, Blessing of the Campanella |
| 8 | 70,806 | Kana Ueda | Maria Watches Over Us, Usagi Drop, Fate/stay night |
| 9 | 64,005 | Rina Satō | Minami-ke, Maria Watches Over Us, Mahou Sensei Negima! |
| 10 | 53,933 | Romi Park | Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, Naruto |
| 11 | 53,635 | Masumi Asano | Blood-C, Hayate the Combat Butler, Ikki Tousen |
| 12 | 51,600 | Halko Momoi | Steins;Gate, Nurse Witch Komugi, Ai Yori Aoshi |
| 13 | 51,453 | Satomi Akesaka | Mitsudomoe, Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, Kyo no Gononi |
| 14 | 49,184 | Misato Fukuen | Rosario + Vampire, Strike Witches, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai |
| 15 | 48,980 | Asami Shimoda | Seitokai Yakuindomo, The IDOLM@STER, Bungaku Shōjo |
| 16 | 48,376 | Yui Horie | Fairy Tail, Kämpfer, Bakemonogatari |
| 17 | 46,191 | Mai Kadowaki | Blessing of the Campanella, Fate/stay night, Strike Witches |
| 18 | 43,001 | Hitomi Harada | Maken-Ki!, Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts, Amagami SS |
| 19 | 37,548 | Yuki Kaida | Prince of Tennis, Hetalia - Axis Powers, Hunter X Hunter |
| 20 | 37,143 | Kaori Nazuka | Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Towa no Quon, Birdy the Mighty: Decode |
Ayana Taketatsu (K-ON!, Star Driver, The World God Only Knows) joined Twitter shortly after this ranking was created, and she would rank around #14 on the list with over 49,000 as of today. The top-ranking male Japanese voice actor by number of Twitter followers as of Thursday is Tomokazu Sugita (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Macross Frontier).
[Via seiyu fan, Ota-Suke]
Update: Yuki Kaida and Kaori Nazuka's rankings switched. Thanks, Sephr0n
