[Air-l] MySpace dying? Part of Yahoo!?

Paul Jones pjones at metalab.unc.edu
Wed Jun 20 08:25:59 PDT 2007


http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/20/rumors-of-the-decline-of-myspace-are-exaggerated/

"The negotiations between News Corp and Yahoo that would see MySpace owned 
by Yahoo in exchange for 25% of Yahoo itself have bought out some 
interesting assessments of MySpace. Most commentary has been negative, 
Michael Arrington describes MySpace as a fading star and others have 
suggested that MySpace is struggling, that it has lost the battle based on 
the fact that Facebook gains far more attention amongst early adopters.

[...]

MySpace is not in decline, MySpace is growing. At current growth rates 
Facebook may take several years to come close to matching MySpace in terms 
of traffic and user numbers baring a massive drop in user numbers by 
MySpace during that time. (charts etc follow)

[...]"



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