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Facebook bigger than Jesus (well, MySpace)

By | Published on Tuesday 16 June 2009

Personally I’m amazed Facebook didn’t pass MySpace as the most used social networking service a long time ago – I mean, do you know anyone who uses MySpace these days? Other than for checking out the daily SNAP Of The Day artist recommendation here in the CMU Daily, of course. Perhaps that’s why they still have relatively impressive user figures. Though now Facebook let you have proper user-friendly web addresses, perhaps we’ll start tipping artist Facebook pages more.

Anyway, US-based research firm ComScore says that Facebook last month had more unique visitors than MySpace for the first time. Though it was close – MySpace had 70.255 million visits, while Facebook had 70.278 million. But those stats don’t tell us how many people went to MySpace just to check it was still as shit as it used to be. (Note: it is.) Though, of course, Rupert Murdoch’s just fired everyone at MySpace, so it might all be about to change.

But probably not – MySpace’s many technical limitations have always been more about history (the fact a small-town and relatively old-school social networking platform grew and grew and grew real fast and got so big it wasn’t practical to start again, even though they really needed to) and less about the skills (or lack of) possessed by the social networking outfit’s senior developers, who have now all parted company with the firm.



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