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Re:200 Million Facebookers? Wishful Thinking by aston on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @04:35PM (#53995)
I grow tired of people comparing MySpace's 'user' numbers to Facebook and other networks. There are so many spam/fake accounts on MySpace

Most people are counting the number of users (read: unique visitors) over a reasonable time period, not the number of registered accounts. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/myspace.com+facebook.com?me...

"they are surely taking away many legit users from MySpace"

Source?

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Re:200 Million Facebookers? Wishful Thinking by skell on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @05:22PM (#54016)
This article wasn't referring to traffic, rather accounts created. While it did cite inactive accounts, it didn't touch on spam accounts.

As far as legit users moving over to Facebook, I speak from personal experience with my friends and colleagues. That statement was more personal opinion and speculation, rather than fact. Sorry if that caused confusion.

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