Suomi24 is a
Finnishinternet forum and entertainment news website. As of 2020[update], it was the largest internet forum in Finland.[1]
History
The history of Suomi24 dates back to 1998, when the website was known as Sirkus.com.[2] In 2000,
Scandinavia Online Ab became the owner and the site was renamed Suomi24. In 2001,
Eniro bought Scandinavia Online as part of the Eniro-group.[citation needed] Since 2008, Suomi24 Oy has been independent company owned by Aller Media Oy, part of Danish company
Aller Media, and Eniro.[3] Aller sold Suomi24 to
City Digital Group [
fi] in 2019.[4]
A corpus collected from the forums was made available for research in the
Finnish Language Bank (Kielipankki) in 2015. The corpus consists of messages reaching back to 2001.[5]