It’s over. Facebook is now as large as MySpace in the U.S., according to May data released today by comScore. Facebook actually passed MySpace by a smidgeon, with 70.278 million unique visitors compared to MySpace’s 70.255 million. While Facebook passed MySpace on a worldwide basis last year, as recently as last March, Facebook was still trailing MySpace by 9 million unique visitors.
In May, Facebook gained another 2.8 million unique visitors in the U.S. MySpace, which has been stagnating lately and as a result now has a new CEO, lost about 700,000 unique visitors during the month. A few months ago, it looked like it might take Facebook until the end of the summer to catch up to MySpace, but it has already done so.
Don’t expect MySpace to reverse this trend and regain its top spot anytime soon. Having just successfully launched its “vanity URLs,” Facebook looks to be on the verge of another hype cycle. Just 15 minutes after the launch, a half million people had signed up for vanity URLs. And as of sometime today, some 6 million users will have apparently signed up — just three days after it launched. Practically everyone is talking about the company once again, from blogs to the mainstream media.
And all this stems from a feature (vanity URLs) that MySpace actually had from the get-go. That itself seems to speak to how over this game is. And when you reverse the situation —MySpace recently launched a site-wide IM toolbar, that looks a lot like the one Facebook had — basically no one talked about it.
about time took them long enough
Yeah, well. FB users are a bit too smart to download the Comscore software…not so sure about MySpace users…so I am sure this happened long ago
So Sad,
no statistics of twitter
I hate it when i don’t read anything that does not have twitter in it, especially on techcrunch.
no, i mean it, seriously. how does twitter compare with facebook?
Seriously where is the twitter integration here? APIs?
Well, it’s hard to tell. About 10% of Twitter users record the 90% of the whole activity.
Yep, it’s incredible that it actually took them that long to do it. Just goes to show you how far behind Facebook was initially and how big MySpace blew it.
But Myspace has more revenue than Facebook.
Myspace’s revenues from single source.. that is goog contract which will go off next year.
And that’s what is most important.
is that despite or because of holocaust denial messages?
With this MySpace is officially dead, I can’t see how they can reverse this- they don’t have any momentum and It’ll take something amazing to regain enough momentum to match Facebook.
Technology has to constantly evolve, as soon as you stop evolving your pretty much dead- and myspace have stopped evolving a long time ago!
They could always allow antisemitic comments and groups!
I didn’t know a site with 70 million UV’s could be “dead”.
Its walking dead, only a matter of time- FACEBOOK has social network all but sown up!
MySpace is in the social networking arena, they should refocus as they cannot compete with FACEBOOK. Maybe focus on music as they are pretty dominant in that arena.
Does Comscore get their information from ISPs?
Myspace pages are riddled with bad design and ads. It looks worse than an abortion and will fail because of this.
They have nothing valuable to add.
Mark my words: In 1 Year Facebook is the biggest and most visited site in the world.
facebook is on to something
MySpace is far from dead, but is definitely on the decline. There are far less popular social networks around that have been hanging on for years. I’m surprised it took this long for Facebook to overtake them in the US. It’s a much better platform, regardless of whether you’re using it for business or friends & family.
I agree with Bradley on this one. I think the reason MySpace declined is that many of the teen boppers graduated high school, signed up to go to college and created a Facebook account.
You add the fact that many older adults are on it (I’m seeing even people who know very little about email signing up for Facebook) and you have a thriving community regardless of age.
Plus, most of MySpace’s pages are very ugly IMHO (not to mention the music is horrendous).
Very good points Darnell! MySpace is horrid to look at. I love the clean interface Facebook has chosen.
MySpace has found its niche in pandering music, but that doesn’t appeal to everyone. Facebook on the other hand does, because it’s good for whatever use the individual wants to put it to.
I called the death of myspace 1.5 years ago, understanding from personal user experience that Facebook was and is superior in virtually every aspect.
Site design and functionality is critical. Facebook excels in this area. As a quick example, one only need to look as far picture viewing. It’s a breeze with FB, a pain in the $@# with MySpace.
FB will continue to grow. MySpace will continue to decline.
Everyone should just delete their MySpace page now, like we did with Friendster ages ago.
Couldn’t agree more!
That’s b/c the guy who led the photos team at MySpace is absolutely worthless
Good example. But I find most things on MySpace to be a pain in the ass. It’s as if they have no coding or UI standards. For anything. Anywhere.
On top of this, MySpace is now riddled with automated comment posts: “Thanks for the add, Full Name!” and “Hello Full Name, we just wanted to let you know that our latest release is out!”
The last time I reported an egregious spammer, “MySpace support” sent me a boilerplate reply outlining what to do if my account had been phished (it hadn’t been). The next time I logged in, I had to jump through many verification hoops and change my password. Thanks?
Everything about MySpace seems to be dead and automated now. Once my music profile’s friends list broke 2100 (95% of them are other music profiles running some kind of friends list harvesting software), I had the option to auto-approve requests as well. So basically, there’s no reason for me to return. And I don’t.
Either that, or I’ll change my name to Full Name.
I’d bet the life savings MySpace’s unique visitors never tops FB anymore (on a rolling 3 month basis), going forward.
I’d further speculate that within another year, Facebook will have double the unique visitors MySpace has, either from continued user growth or user loss by MySpace.
Rest assured, slowly but surely, MySpace will be phased out. In a few more years, people will say, “What’s MySpace?”
Not to say that FB is out of the woods either. They’ll need more than just eyeballs to survive.
Little error in the post. It was 1,000,000 in an hour not 15 minutes.
yep thanks, that was meant to be half-million. fixed
You are all morons. FB is the latest social networking fad. Within the next year, all you guppies will drop FB like a 30 year old girlfriend and jump on the latest trend.
We are all guppies and FB is the flavor of the month. FB will enter the deadpool in a few years….
we only knew it was a matter of time anyway
Those are interesting numbers but is there a way to find out how many of those MySpace od Facebook accounts are actually being used actively…?!
How do they sort ot the “corpses”, like when people sign up for an account out of curiosity, the find out that MySpace is a big pile of poo and never ever return…?!
(I’m not saying that FB is that much better though, but in my eyes MySpace is the ickiest place on the whole wide Web…)
Myspace will come back with a better product just give the new CEO a minute to get his feet on the ground and start running! Facebook may have more users but is losing money and has no real way of making money at the moment. At least myspace is a financial sound company with or without the google deal. It doesn’t matter how many unique hits facebook gets they still have to run like a business. Money coming = profitablility which facebook does not have.
You can’t be a financially sound company when your only vauluable thing is page impressions and they are going down. Myspace will need to trim a high percentage of their work force to stay profitable after the google deal. And that is a higher percentage then they have already done.
That’s if News Corp keep Myspace and not working busy to divest them to another company
Anything that makes 25million/ month is doing alright in my book. I agree that facebook is a better platform, but MySpace has done a good job of monetizing their audience, and still has tremendous potential in certain areas
Myspace is as large in the U.S. as Facebook, yet they’re “dead”? Myspace is “dominant” in music, but they’re dead? Okay.
Here in Arlington Virginia we have many facebook users but not too many myspace user I go to the cafe the other day order some starbuck ice coffee the lady toll me to thing about it if it not good cafe I shouldnent put coupon on the facebook website page I sip a couple of sip and thing about it and I thing she was right.
Is a smidgeon a cross between a smidgin and a pigeon?
facebook is just a better product. i used to love myspace, but now i just check it once in a great while. it doesn’t have the same appeal to me anymore. better begets better.
i think techcrunch gets good money (from FB) to make or at least present like MS is dead ..
Lets see how much money Myspace makes without Google subsidies.
Well Myspace let you have your own URL and so did Linked IN. So this is far from being the new thing. I think Facebook letting you have it is a lot easier for usage. Just because all those profile numbers and letters were way too confusing.
I still keep Myspace because I just don’t have the heart to delete it. I don’t go on there because all of my discussions are happening on Facebook and though I used to like the creativity of Myspace it just does NOTHING for me anymore.
Congratulations to Facebook!!!
Thanks to Tech Crunch, which says everything done by facebook is better and everything done my myspace is bad.
Honestly the vanity URL of facebook that attracted so much attention has been there is myspace for ages.
Tech crunch definetly has some tie ups with facebook.
comScore is late to the game. this already happened in January. Check the compete.com comparison
http://siteanal...v&months=12
Wow, go Facebook! I like it better than Myspace, anyway.
I use all the site equally for the most part. I like the games each has. I randomly spam my friends with app requests. If I need to get ahold of someone, I just text. The social sites are a fad. Bring out another one and I’ll join it too !
friendster overtook geocities
myspace overtook friendster
facebook (finally) overtakes myspace
something else will come along to overtake facebook
cycle of life
http://www.tech...pace-interview/
“Rose even refers to a TechCrunch post to ask whether Facebook will one day surpass MySpace in the U.S. (it already has worldwide). DeWolfe says, ‘no.’”
Wow..myspace winner .I go myspace very day than facebook .
Ummm… Who cares?
When will the next incredibly useless privacy stealing website launch so techcrunch can get all wet about facebook’s demise?
Can’t you guys live your lives outside of your computers? Show me some sites that help me do that better and stop with all this facespacetwit.org stuff.
I have had it!!!!!
The marketing strategy with “vanity URLs worked great for facebook, many users log on to their account after a long period of inactivity.
Well wait for a few years(?), facebook will be on it’s way out replaced by a newer baby. I believe the phrase is “fad of the day”?
and right on time, MySpace axes 30% of employees
I guess the comscore data did not go over well at News corp
http://www.fund...0-of-staff.html
With all the “hip hip hooray” for Facebook, maybe it was a blessing in disguise that I got walked out by security from MySpace today! …
I’ve stopped using MySpace almost completely due to the fact that there is no way to not receive bulletins from your friend’s applications. I don’t care who you just bought, kissed, waged war against, etc etc.
But… I think MySpace is still a great site for authors, artists, bands, comedians, filmmakers, and as a way for their fans to keep up with them.
Yes, FB has Pages (and artists should have both!) but personally, as a musician and filmmaker, I think MySpace is better at promoting your work. At least until users stop visiting it. 70m visitors is plenty!
After not logging into my Myspace account for months, I signed back in to delete it. Let me tell you the process was MORE COMPLICATED THAN NECESSARY. After several pain in the a$$ steps, they proceeded to tell me that I would get an email within the next TWO DAYS confirming my desire to delete my account. Now I did this about 2 months ago, and I still HAVE NOT received my confirmation email. I have a feeling it’s never going to come; MySpace is desperate.