Tianya Club (Mandarin: Tiānyáshèqū 天涯社区 "End of the World" Club) is one of the most popular
Internet forum
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s in China. As of 2015, it is ranked by
Alexa
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*Amazon Alexa, a virtual assistant developed by Amazon
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* Arri Alexa, a digital motion picture camera
People
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as the 11th most visited site in the People's Republic of China and 60th overall. It was founded on 14 February 1999.
It provides
BBS
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Ammunition
* BBs, BB gun metal bullets
* BBs, airsoft gun plastic pellets
Computing and gaming
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* BIOS Boot Specificat ...
, blog, microblog and photo album services.
Politicians have used Tianya Club to campaign, answer questions from constituents, and gather grassroots support.
Notable incidents
Tianya Club has been involved in Chinese news stories such as a revival of the 1995
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University (; abbreviation, abbr. THU) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Minis ...
poisoning story about
Zhu Ling.
* Tianya Club was the progenitor of the
Hanxin
Hanxin () was an notorious Chinese academic fraudulence case, committed in the name of a digital signal processing (DSP) microchip. Chen Jin, a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University claimed to have developed the chip in 2003. The Hanxin 1 ...
hoax and was involved in the exposure of the
2007 Chinese slave scandal. Tianya Club is also famous for its
social search
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, nicknamed the "
human flesh search engine
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" (''Renrou Sousuo'', meaning "human flesh search" literally, extended to "by hand" or "not computer aided"). For example, during January 2008 of
Edison Chen photo scandal
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, the Tianya Club users searched out and identified the woman involved, based on a silhouette in a newspaper.
* Xiao Yueyue: Viral Marketing campaigns. In an effort to promote Tianya ahead of its
IPO
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, writer Xu Jiayi (a novelist and fourth-year University of Shanghai drama student who volunteered at the
2010 Shanghai Expo) concocted an elaborate
scatological
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Scatological studies allow one to determine a wide range of biological information about a creature, including its diet (and thus where it has been), health and diseases s ...
account of a "stupendous girl's" national day vacation adventure to the Expo.
See also
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4chan
4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from anime and manga to video games, cooking, weapons, television, ...
*
Futaba Channel
, or Futaba for short, also sometimes called 2chan (not to be confused with 2channel), is an imageboard in Japan. A popular Japanese website, it deals with a wide variety of topics, from daily personal problems to sports, ramen, and otaku and un ...
*
2channel
References
External links
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Chinese Internet forums
Internet properties established in 1999
1999 establishments in China
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