is a

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and entertainment news website. , it was the largest internet forum in Finland.

History

The history of Suomi24 dates back to 1998, when the website was known as Sirkus.com. In 2000,

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became the owner and the site was renamed Suomi24. In 2001,

Eniro Eniro AB is a Nordic tech company that helps small and medium-sized companies with digital marketing. Eniro also has a search service that aggregates, filters and presents information to help individuals find and come into contact with each othe ...

bought Scandinavia Online as part of the Eniro-group. Since 2008, Suomi24 Oy has been independent company owned by Aller Media Oy, part of Danish company

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, and Eniro. Aller sold Suomi24 to in 2019. A corpus collected from the forums was made available for research in the

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() in 2015. The corpus consists of messages reaching back to 2001.

References

External links

* Finnish social networking websites 1998 establishments in Finland Entertainment websites Internet forums Internet properties established in 1998 Finnish news websites {{socialnetwork-stub