10 Million Users Leave Myspace Within A Month
Ouch (although I am not surprised at all)
Kanye West & Jay-Z’s “H.A.M.” A Marketing Spoil.
On Jan. 11, Facebook crashed, or at least according to Kanye West. Around midnight, West tweeted a screen shot of an error page suggesting the famed social network had exceeded it’s bandwidth following the release of “H.A.M.”
Rap veterans Kanye West and Jay-Z had released the first track off of their forthcoming album, Watch the Throne, on Facebook but to lukewarm reviews and even more lackluster buzz.
Kanye West x Jay-Z - HAM by uristocrat
Days before the release, West and Jay-Z announced on their Facebook fan pages that “H.A.M.” would be a midnight release via a page dedicated to their joint album.
And soon after, the blogosphere was pregnant with anticipation of the duet single from the rap titans.
Facebook users rushed the Root Music powered “BandPage” for the first taste of Watch the Throne and in the hours following the release, the album page had garnered over 32k fans and hundreds of comments. “H.A.M.” was all the digital hip-hop community could talk about in the small hours of Jan. 11 but the question still remains:
Why Facebook?
News Corp likely to shut down MySpace by June "unless we see remarkable turnaround," analyst says
News Corp. will most likely shutter MySpace by June “unless we see a remarkable turnaround in the next few months,” Alan Gould, an analyst with Evercore Partners, said in a research note to clients today before the restructuring was announced.
Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, may lose $225 million this fiscal year, up from an estimated $180 million last year, Gould said. He reduced his estimate for News Corp.’s fiscal 2011 operating income by 5 percent because of MySpace’s losses and weaker film results.
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The New Myspace Logo!!
MySpace Unveils a New, Sorta Unbranded Logo
The Rise of Social Gaming & Zynga
Via:onlineschools.org
Twitter passes MySpace in unique visitors to become the No. 3 social networking service in the world
Last month the four-year-old micro-blogging service surpassed MySpace in unique visitors to become the No. 3 social networking-type service in the world, according to new data from comScore Inc. Twitter had nearly 96 million unique visitors in August, up 76% from the same period last year, comScore said. MySpace, meanwhile, dropped 17% during the same period, to 95 million unique visitors last month.
Social Media: Parents of future generations……maybe?
The World: by Phil: MySpace finally plugs into Facebook
(Credit: MySpace)
MySpace has finally made a concession of sorts: that rival Facebook has grown so dominant that not syncing up to its web of social connections would be a mistake. The News Corp.-owned social network, as was rumored late last year,…
“MySpace has begun rolling out a new user homepage which prominently displays the activity stream and is designed to simplify the content discovery experience. At log-in today, MySpace users can opt-in for an early look at the new homepage. It will formally launched to all users on Monday 8/19.”
Read more at Hypebot
Dennis J. Smith – Social Media Author - MySpace back in the Social Media game?
MySpace used to be the king of social networking long before Twitter and Facebook dethroned it from the top. But MySpace has new leaders and is about to get an update to its look and feel. Will that be enough to save it from further decline? Maybe.
