Ameba (website)

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Ameba

Type of business	Public subsidiary
Type of site	Social networking service
Available in	Japanese (Blogging Platform, Virtual Community, Social Games)
Headquarters	Tokyo , Japan
Area served	Japan
Key people	Susumu Fujita, CEO & President
Parent	CyberAgent
URL	www.ameba.jp
Current status	Active (Mobile browser Pigg), Active (Pigg Party mobile app), Active (Pigg Life mobile app), Closed (Pigg PC Version), Closed (Pico)

Ameba (Japanese pronunciation: アメーバ, 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.