{"id":13645,"date":"2011-03-31T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T21:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=13645"},"modified":"2011-03-31T06:01:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T21:01:10","slug":"social-illustration-service-pixiv-hits-3-million-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/social-illustration-service-pixiv-hits-3-million-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Illustration Service Pixiv Hits 3 Million Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pixiv_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13646\" title=\"pixiv_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pixiv_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJapan has quite a few <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/2008\/05\/17\/7-web-services-to-become-creative-japanese-style\/\">&#8220;social drawing services&#8221;<\/a> that let users upload self-drawn images and connect with each other. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixiv.net\/\">Pixiv<\/a> is the biggest of them all.<br \/>\nThe eponymous company behind the service has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixiv.co.jp\/pressrelease\/pixiv300.html\">announced<\/a> that Pixiv hit 3 million members on March 29. The number of users doubled since January last year, when we reported that Pixiv counted <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/social-illustration-network-pixiv-now-has-1-5-million-members-racks-up-1-2-billion-pvs-monthly\/\">1.5 million members<\/a>. All in all, it took 1,296 days to hit the 3 million mark.<br \/>\nThe page views even more than doubled in that time frame, growing from 1 billion per month to a staggering 2.3 billion (including mobile Pixiv). This is not too surprising, as members post 22,000 drawings <em>daily<\/em> (there are now a total of 17.7 million drawings on the site).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pixiv_screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13647\" title=\"pixiv_screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pixiv_screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you want to give Pixiv a spin, you can sign up in English <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixiv.net\/signup.php\">here<\/a> (even though the service shows a weird mix of both languages on some pages).<br \/>\nI can also recommend the great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pixiv\">entry<\/a> on Pixiv on Wikipedia, which highlights the background and history of the service in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has quite a few &#8220;social drawing services&#8221; that let users upload self-drawn images and connect with each other. But Pixiv is the biggest of them all. The eponymous company behind the service has announced that Pixiv hit 3 million members on March 29. The number of users doubled since January last year, when we&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/social-illustration-service-pixiv-hits-3-million-members\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Illustration Service Pixiv Hits 3 Million Members<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[2889],"class_list":["post-13645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-pixiv","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}