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The history of Myspace

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

MySpace (MySpace.com) is a social networking website consisting of personal user profiles that includes networks of friends, groups, blogs, photos, videos and music, plus an internal messaging network that enables users to communicate with each other and an internal search.

It was created by Tom Anderson but now is owned by News Corporation, has 300 employees, with 200,623,371 users (in September of 2007) and their growth rate is about 230,000 daily users. Its headquarters is in Santa Monica, California, United States and also has another server at headquarters and the city of New York, USA. According to the website Alexa dedicated to measure traffic from the Internet, MySpace is the twelfth most visited site on the entire network [1] and the fourth most visited site in the English-language network, but on the other hand, this is not much frequented in Europe.
MySpace began to expand, expand and gain popularity as well as users slowly, to the point of becoming something unusual and a social revolution, especially in the United States, where MySpace is the most visited Web site after Yahoo!, MSN, Google and YouTube and to the point where the majority of the population aware of the service and is very common, particularly among youth and young Americans, being user of MySpace. Currently the service is expanding globally and gaining users in other countries.
Among its capabilities, MySpace offers special profiles for musicians and users use the service with several different purposes, including communicating with friends or relatives, meet people, for business