is a Japanese
blog
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ging and
social networking website.
In December 2009, Ameba launched Ameba Now, a micro-blogging platform competing with
Twitter
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.
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, March 12, 2010. In March 2009 Ameba launched Ameba Pico, a
Facebook
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app for the English market based on the
virtual community Ameba Pigg.
History
Ameba blogs, known as Ameblo (), were first created in September 2004.
By 2008, the number of users had grown substantially, reaching 13.28 million in May.
Nielsen//NetRatings attributed this in part to the number of popular celebrity blogs on the platform. Server upgrades were performed in 2007 and 2008 to account for the increase in traffic.
In 2009, CyberAgent launched the
micro-blogging platform Ameba Now as a competitor to
Twitter
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,
as well as Ameba Pigg, a virtual world.
An English version of Ameba Pigg was released the following year, and closed in 2012.
Between April and August 2013, 243,266 Ameba accounts were compromised. The company requested users change their passwords.
In early 2019, Ameba announced that the PC version of Ameba Pigg would be shut down by December 2, 2019 due to the termination of
Adobe Flash in 2020.
Ameba blogs were scheduled to be split off to CyberAgent subsidiary CyberOwl; the transfer was cancelled in March 2025 due to an internal investigation into CyberOwl's accounting practices.
See also
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AbemaTV
References
External links
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Ameba Pigg (PC Version)
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Virtual world communities
Japanese social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2004
2004 establishments in Japan
Microblogging services
CyberAgent
Ameba (website)