is a Japanese

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ging and

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website. In December 2009, Ameba launched Ameba Now, a micro-blogging platform competing with

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.Twitter Faces a Battle for Tweets

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, March 12, 2010. In March 2009 Ameba launched Ameba Pico, a

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app for the English market based on the

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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.

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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

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platform Ameba Now as a competitor to

, 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

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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.

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Ameba Pigg (PC Version)
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