MySpace slipped over the 100 million users mark earlier today (August 9th). Those who watched the dial claim that the 100,000,000 level was reached at 07:41 EST - as you can see, I missed it by a few thousand. Of course, that figure has been bumped up by millions of fake and inactive accounts, but it’s still a remarkable achievement.The last available stats suggest that MySpace is currently signing up 500,000 new users a week, but they’ve added more than 170,000 accounts so far today - perhaps it’s a mid-week spike, or maybe there was a bit of gaming going on to see who could grab that coveted friend ID.
In what’s probably an apt tribute to MySpace, the 100 millionth account doesn’t work - instead, it returns the familiar message “Invalid Friend ID. This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted.” This is the same message that many users saw when their accounts were “deleted” at the end of July. This was supposedly the result of the previous power outage (see MySpace Down), but if my blog comments are anything to go by, some users still can’t access their MySpace accounts.
Although it has been claimed that MySpace is the number one US site, the latest stats out of Comscore (July 2006) tell a different story - MySpace remains the number two site behind Yahoo, but looks set to reign supreme if the current trends continue.
