MySpace Registrations Slowing

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Many users of social networking site MySpace are renouncing the site and saying goodbye to their accounts due to increasing popularity and spam, The Wall Street Journal reported. (Subscription required)

Nielsen//NetRatings reported that MySpace and other social networking site Facebook.com have lost visitors in September. MySpace's unqiue U.S. visitors fell 4 percent to 47.2 million from 49.2 in August, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.

Users of social networks add requests for friends but many advertisers take advantage of the "friend request" and send out requests that are really just ads. The results of these attempts often frustrate users who see these requests as spam.


MySpace says it has incorporated technology to identify and block spammers, reported the Journal.


Advertisers are excited to tap into the social networking audience. In August News Corp.'s Fox Interactive announced it has selected Google Inc. as MySpace.com's search system.

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Blame the spammers for your shitty site. Try to use something other that ColdFusion and maybe you won't have such a hardcore spammer issue you dumb twats! Also, there are only so many millions of people who can signup to the site. They won't get 300M people to join. Be glad with the 60+ Million users on there, even if 4-5 million of them are fake spammer profiles.
 
4% is hardly a decline

If it falls 20%+ then there could be a problem but what we're seeing are normal fluctuations.

Spam won't have too much of a negative affect on myspace becuase myspace is such a big site relative to the spam problem. Google is full of spam and more people than ever use google. Same for email. We all get spam but it doesn;t mean we stop using email.

What will cause a substancial delcine is if too young people get board with myspace and move to a another site or go offline alltogether.

In the longterm, myspace will do just fine though.
 
Considering that probably a large number of new regs are spammers now, I think any decrease is probably pretty significant.

I wonder what percentage of myspace accounts are there just to spam other myspace accounts.
 
Well.. honestly they shouldn't be worrying much. They just inked a $900M deal with Google, so that puts them into the black for a total ROI (for Newscorp at least). On top of which they charge $2.50 CPM for their ad spaces, and I think the minimum buy is $30k. They also do that "featured profile" thing, which is $50k. If they changed their code, and maybe went a php or even an asp route, they would be able to combat a shitload of their spam issues. Will they do it? Probably not. Why not? Because spam really isn't that big of an issue yet, and it won't be addressed until 40% of the profiles are spam. Same as AOL did years ago. For nearly 10 years their network was spammed left and right, and until at least 60% of email flowing through there was spam, that's when they did something about it. Big companies are stupid like that.
 
There adding captcha to bulletins anytime, that will cut the phishing spam by alot. But theres exploits found everyday, javascript, xss, worms..
 
Couldnt the 4% decline be attributed to the fact that a big chunk of myspace users went back to school? And that the majority of the schools block myspace...so the kids can't be on until they get home. Instead of being on 24/7 during the summer.
 
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