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U.S. has new No. 2 social network

Despite new ownership and an injection of Justin Timberlake celebrity cachet, the bad news just keeps coming for Myspace.

How Is It That MySpace is Only Worth $100M and Twitter is worth $5-7B When They Have Similar Revenue and Traffic

Thu, 03/10/2011 - 12:28pm — senh

When I heard that News Corp was selling Myspace, I was curious about the price, what with Facebook being valued at $50B (or $75B on SecondMarket) and Twitter at around $5-7B.

I’m surprised that News Corp’s trying to sell MySpace for a relatively cheap price of $100-200M. Most recently, they wanted $100M in stock from Zynga, makers of popular Facebook app Farmville. They were reportedly only willing to offer $50M cash.

Report: Facebook Is The Fastest Social Network; Twitter And Myspace, Slowest

Despite a few outages in the past few months, Facebook continues to zip along as the fastest social network in terms of average response time for the site, according to a report by web analytics company AlertSite.

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Twitter Now Getting More Traffic Than MySpace

Twitter’s number of monthly unique visitors finally surpassed that of MySpace in August. Though it ranked third among social networking sites, Twitter ranked #50 in the list of top 50 properties overall. The numbers were crunched by the marketing research firm comScore.

Senh: They consider Windows Live a social network? That's a first.

Facebook Hits New Traffic Record

Facebook has more users than ever, says comScore. With its most recent privacy backlash seemingly behind it, Facebook surged ahead to a new traffic record in the U.S. during the month of June. According to comScore, the social network pulled in more than 141 million unique visitors in the U.S. during the month, beating its previous record (set in May) by better than 11 million.

Senh: Impressive. I wonder if it's the social plugins that sparked the privacy concerns the reason for Facebook's growth for the last couple months. Myspace isn't growing anymore, but it seemed to have stabilized, which isn't too bad if the company budget accordingly. Twitter seems like its gotten as big as it could get. Maybe now they can finally focus on monetization.

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Microsoft debuts 'social' phone

Microsoft unveils a phone called "Kin" which the firm says has been made for those who live their lives online.

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Loving Google Buzz So Far

Fri, 02/12/2010 - 3:07pm — senh

Some features just make sense. Google Buzz is one of them. It's nothing new really. It's just Twitter integrated within GMail, and with commenting, it looks a lot like Facebook.

Now I Know Why People Don't Put MySpace in the Corner

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 2:25am — senh

On most websites nowadays, you'll see somewhere on the page, usually at the top right corner, links to the site's RSS feed, Twitter account, and Facebook fanpage. I've always wondered why MySpace, being the second largest social networking site by far, isn't on that list.

Collecta Offers A Real-Time View Into MySpace

The buzz around realtime search of social networks has mostly surrounded Twitter and Facebook. Collecta, OneRiot and the search giants, including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo all tap into Twitter (and Facebook too) to capture the realtime stream of content. But MySpace is also getting into the game, recently releasing a set of real-time APIs that both OneRiot and Google will be tapping into to provide content from the social network. Today, real-time search engine Collecta has launched a search platform that offers a real-time view into MySpace.

Time For A Social Networking Shakeout

Get ready for a rash of new business models and the consolidation of old ones.

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