Tianya Club

Tianya
Type of site
Internet forum
Available inChinese
URLtianya.cn
CommercialYes
Launched14 February 1999
Current statusOffline

Tianya Club (Mandarin: Tiānyáshèqū 天涯社区 "End of the World" Club) is one of the most popular Internet forums in China.[1] As of 2015, it is ranked by Alexa as the 11th most visited site in the People's Republic of China and 60th overall.[2] It was founded on 14 February 1999.

It provides BBS, blog, microblog and photo album services.

Politicians have used Tianya Club to campaign, answer questions from constituents, and gather grassroots support.[3]

The website has been down since April 26th, 2023.[4]

  1. ^ Cao, Lina; Tang, Xijin (16 October 2013). "Prevailing Trends Detection of Public Opinions Based on Tianya Forum". Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning -- IDEAL 2013. Springer. p. 186. ISBN 9783642412783. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Traffic Info on Tianya". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  3. ^ County mayor solicits advice at popular online community, China Daily, 14 April 2006
  4. ^ "独家 | 天涯社区停止运营背后:域名一个月前已被封,因拖欠电信十几年服务器费用被打包出售 | 雷峰网". www.leiphone.com.