MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month

Re:MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month by kmfrk on Thursday January 15, 2015 @03:28AM (#8891449)

I imagine they would leave it alone as much as possible, because they aren't sure what's bringing in all the traffic. Wouldn't want to be another Digg.

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Re:MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month by andreasklinger on Thursday January 15, 2015 @06:30AM (#8891944)

Most likely a lot of that traffic is just SEO traffic that bounces away when they don't find what they look for.

50M sounds like a vanity number of unique visitors.

Still a lot but not comparable (thus actionable or risky-to-destroy) to eg "50M active users"

(to be fair twitter/fb and co usually also communicate the unique visitors afair)

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Re:MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month by pan69 on Thursday January 15, 2015 @03:44AM (#8891490)

Its funny how similar the Digg and Myspace home pages look..

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Re:MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month by nebula on Thursday January 15, 2015 @09:07AM (#8892510)

What's Digg's story. Curious to know.

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Re:MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month by mercnet on Thursday January 15, 2015 @09:52AM (#8892707)

They released a new version and members hated it They had no way of rolling back to the older version. http://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kill...

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Re:MySpace Still Reaches 50M People Each Month by kmfrk on Thursday January 15, 2015 @09:22AM (#8892568)

tl;dr: Digg was the original reddit - much bigger, reddit was the underdog.

Digg did a redesign that was absolutely horrible and created a huge backlash. Because Digg did not create a backup/proper versioning, they couldn't go back to the old design, and people migrated to reddit. The rest, as they say, is history.

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