Wow
A staff of 1000 people for the two users it has O_O.
Well, 500 now, probably the 2nd last user left?
Fail, because "My_" is just that
MySpace management confirmed yesterday that it is considering selling the ailing website, following the firm’s decision to lay off half of its 1,000-strong workforce earlier this week. “News Corp is assessing a number of possibilities, including a sale, a merger and a spinout,” a spokeswoman at MySpace’s parent company said, …
3 million new users sounds impressive, until you realise that such a figure is possible if just 0.6% of all Facebook users signed up on MySpace out of curiosity about the new design.
Say what you like about FB but there's a lot of reasons it's been far more successful than any other social networking site. Eight years on they're still growing phenomenally, while the likes of MySpace are going down the toilet.
It sure couldn't be ran any worse.
Bad decision after bad decision and here we are. News corp has been trying to sell it ever since the wind blew that the buy could of been a bad move.
Perhaps the political class can rule myspace too big to fail and bail it out.
I see a lot of MySpace bashing going on here, but the reality is if MySpace has it's plug pulled, there will be hundreds of thousands of bands who's official websites disappear. Think it's only bands? Not so, even venues have official websites, so even if the band's tour dates aren't posted, they still would have had the venue posting the tour dates, but many venue's use MySpace as their official website as well. Neither can simply afford domain names, hosting, or full time webmasters. You want to hate or punish Murdoch fine, but the reality is having your site there in the first place does punish his empire. You take down MySpace and the opposite punishment will happen. good luck finding your favorite band when google spits out millions of broken myspace official websites.
And before you all say run to facebook, You might want to keep in mind the criminal organization Goldman Sac is exploiting it as an investment. They take the money they stole from the American people and invest it in facebook (which I have to say $50 billion is way overrated.)