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Facebook Catches MySpace; MySpace to Get Botox

posted on June 13, 2008


Do you believe in simple coincidences? If you do, then you’ll believe that MySpace’s announced facelift has nothing to do with the fact that Facebook has just caught up to its global audience numbers.

TC has comScore data charting Facebook’s unstoppable worldwide growth and how it has now matched MySpace’s 115 million monthly visitors number (although still behind MySpace’s US audience numbers).

In no response whatsoever, MySpace plans to rollout a major new look on June 18th. The company has announced that its homepage, navigation, profiles, search, and MySpace TV player will all get a new look.

"This is more than a facelift; we’re changing the way people interact with the site and with brands," MySpace said, adding that a major advertiser had signed on to take over the US MySpace homepage on the first day of the relaunch.

Now we just have to wait and see how well the MySpace community reacts to the changes. As Facebook knows, making even small changes can result in a minor riot from your user base.


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  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole Price

    Good old competition and capitalism wins again! The user benefits.

  • http://foolishmumbles.com Top Rated

    Thank goodness. Myspace is a blight on the internet. I’ve never seen a site with such incredibly ugly visual design do so well. It’s an affront to designers everywhere.

    Top Rated’s last blog post..The Very Best Digital SLR Cameras

  • http://www.newhomessection.com Jayson

    Yeah MySpace could use a little bit of botox here and there.

    Any news on Facebook creating more revenue? Does MySpace do well financially?

  • http://reviewinfo.wordpress.com reviewinfo

    well i think that facebook is catching up with myspace.
    with all the media coverage etc. its all free publicity for facebook.
    i reckon myspace has lost the lead.

    reviewinfo’s last blog post..Workers strike into question supply in the UK

  • http://www.onlinemarketingknowledgebase.com Kelly Lowe

    Of all of the social networking sites that I am a member of, MySpace is the one that I passed on by…uninterested. It is true that MySpace gives one the most leeway in being unique, by giving users the ability to use a wide variety of layouts, or even to create their own…but I still passed on it.

    To me, the immediate feeling that I get from MySpace is that it is full of teens and 20 somethings, with pictures their mother’s would just die over, using words their mother’s would cry over…provided she could crawl through all of the spam to find them!

    Kelly Lowe’s last blog post..Commentary: Link Building Has Gotten Out of Control

  • http://www.netage.co.za Goran Web Design

    As a designer, I dont use MySpace because of its interface. Maybe I will pop past and the new look will change my mind. Facebook is now getting too complicated, its simplicity that wins.

  • http://www.evawhite.com Eva White

    Well the more improvements the better for us the users. After all perfection doesn’t just happen overnight it does require facelifts!

    Eva White’s last blog post..Canada’s Apology To The Indian People

  • http://socialnetworkbootcamp.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/facebook-friend-adder-software/ Facebook Friend Adder

    Myspace still has more users than Facebook. I think 300 plus million to Facebook’s 80 million which should be changing. Although myspace is copying a lot of similar functionality that you would see on Facebook.

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