{"id":7992,"date":"2010-04-14T17:26:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=7992"},"modified":"2010-04-14T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:26:05","slug":"japans-no-1-social-network-now-boasts-20-million-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/japans-no-1-social-network-now-boasts-20-million-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s No. 1 Social Network Mixi Now Boasts 20 Million Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJapan’s No. 1 social network Mixi<\/a> [JP] just announced<\/a> [JP] its member base surged past 20 million, meaning the site added 1.4 million users since the end of last year<\/a> [JP] and 2.6 million registered users since June 2009 (the last time Mixi issued a press release about its member base).
\nBy way of comparison: DeNA’s social mobile gaming site Mobage-town has over 17.25 million members<\/a> (PDF\/data for February 2010). GREE had 16.73 million users<\/a> [JP, PDF] at the end of last year, but it’s very likely that it currently has more members than Mobagetown (GREE overtook rival Mobage-town (15.12 million vs. 15.10 million users) for the first time in October last year<\/a>).
\nAn interesting factoid is that while Facebook has managed to capture about 37.5% of the American population (116 of 309 million people<\/a>) so far, Mixi’s member base of 20 million translates just to 15.7% of the Japanese population<\/a> (internet penetration in both countries is almost identical at around 75%). Facebook opened up its site to all users in September 2006, whereas Mixi started its service in February 2004.
\nThe Americans have entered Japan with a development base<\/a> in February and are expected to launch a Japan-specific cell phone version<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan’s No. 1 social network Mixi [JP] just announced [JP] its member base surged past 20 million, meaning the site added 1.4 million users since the end of last year [JP] and 2.6 million registered users since June 2009 (the last time Mixi issued a press release about its member base). By way of comparison:… Continue reading Japan’s No. 1 Social Network Mixi Now Boasts 20 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":[883,1441,2342,2370,3427],"class_list":["post-7992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-dena","tag-gree","tag-mixi","tag-mobage-town","tag-social-networks","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992","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=7992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}