MySpace #1 U.S. Destination

An article on TechCrunch notes that Hitwise is reporting that MySpace has hit the number one spot for most visited website by US internet users last week. Before this point, Google and Yahoo were traditionally fighting for the number one spot.

MySpace was able to attain a 4.5% market share of all the US Internet visits for the week ending July 8th, 2006.

Recent numbers for MySpace put the service at 75 million plus users, 15 million daily unique logins, 240,000 new users per day, and nearly 30 billion monthly page views - that’s 10,593 page views per second.
Perhaps what this means is that for many young people, the social web isn’t a seperate place it’s the web. Once MySpace teams with a powerful search engine, goes multilingual (if that works) and continues expanding into new verticals like the new Books section - then we’ll see if building on the basic social functions the site is famous for will make it stronger. Child safety issues, malware - so much remains to be seen.

MySpace hit #1 US destination last week, Hitwise [TechCrunch]

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