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Ameba (website)

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Not to be confused with Ameba TV or Abema.
Ameba
Type of businessPublic subsidiary
Type of site
Social networking service
Available inJapanese (Blogging Platform, Virtual Community, Social Games)
Headquarters
Tokyo
,
Japan
Area servedJapan
ParentCyberAgent
URLwww.ameba.jp
Current statusActive (Mobile browser Pigg), Active (Pigg Party mobile app), Active (Pigg Life mobile app), Closed (Pigg PC Version), Closed (Pico)

Ameba (Japanese: アメーバ, Hepburn: Amēba) is a Japanese blogging and social networking website.

In December 2009, Ameba launched Ameba Now, a micro-blogging platform competing with Twitter.[1] In March 2009 Ameba launched Ameba Pico, a Facebook app for the English market based on the virtual community Ameba Pigg.

History

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Ameba blogs, known as Ameblo (Japanese: アメブロ, romanized: ameburo), were first created in September 2004.[2] 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.[3] Server upgrades were performed in 2007 and 2008 to account for the increase in traffic.[2]

In 2009, CyberAgent launched the micro-blogging platform Ameba Now as a competitor to Twitter,[4][1] as well as Ameba Pigg, a virtual world.[5] An English version of Ameba Pigg was released the following year, and closed in 2012.[6]

Between April and August 2013, 243,266 Ameba accounts were compromised. The company requested users change their passwords.[7][8][needs update]

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.[5]

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.[9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Twitter Faces a Battle for Tweets Financial Times, March 12, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "100億PVにも耐えられる、アメブロがOracle RACで性能向上". NikkeiXtech (in Japanese). Nikkei Business Publications. 2008-06-24. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  3. ^ "「アメブロ」、芸能人の公式ブログでアクセス数が急増". NikkeiXTech (in Japanese). Nikkei Business Publications. 2008-06-27. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  4. ^ "ミニブログ「Amebaなう」がサービス開始、押切もえなど芸能人参加で集客目指す". NikkeiXtech (in Japanese). Nikkei Business Publications. 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  5. ^ a b "アメーバピグPC版、10年の歴史に幕。理由は、2020年末でFLASHが使用できなくなるため（声明全文）". ハフポスト (in Japanese). 2019-03-12. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  6. ^ Martin, Rick (November 4, 2012). "CyberAgent to Close English Version of its Ameba Pigg Virtual World". Tech in Asia. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  7. ^ "「アメーバ」に不正ログイン24万件超 サイバーエージェント". The Nikkei (in Japanese). 2013-08-12. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  8. ^ "サイバーエージェント、Amebaで不正アクセス--24万件の個人情報閲覧の可能性". CNET Japan (in Japanese). 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  9. ^ "サイバー、子会社で不適切会計 社内調査委を設置 - 日本経済新聞". The Nikkei (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-04-22.
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