What is Digg?Warning: The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate
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- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37Innacurate.
- EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Lets make a more accurate estimate:
More people use myspace than vote in the American elections. - arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -12/+34100% *****. 30% of the people don't even know what Myspace is...
- thumb_tack99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2230% of the internet population has been molested by men over 40.
- DevilsRejection, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21The only thing I got from myspace was hepatitis C
- Sell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I'm glad to be a part of the majority on this one then.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19More people use myspace then read the article they just dugg.
- birch25, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22"100% *****. 30% of the people don't even know what Myspace is"
so 70% do know? - stomicron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1951 million unique visitors does not equal 51 million unique registered users. They're talking IP addresses, and the millions of people obsessed with mywasteofspace likely log on from every computer they encounter.
Marked as inaccurate. - quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Wait a minute though... the article says 30% of the ONLINE population. That still seems overstated, but at least it's a little closer to reality.
- godmode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13You have to register to even look at a picture on myspace, which means millions of people registering and leaving their accounts inactive.
So these number are pure unadulterated crap. - flubba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12no way.
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Reported as completely innaccurate and probably written by Rupert Murdoch.
- Stopher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Meaning they logged on once, made an account, and never looked at it again.
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9That article is as about as accurate as any Fox news broadcast.
Pure unadultered *****. - theking89, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11The empirical data may be skewed due to the the methods used, but I think most of you are missing the point. The point is not X number of people are using MySpace... the point is that many, many people are using MySpace. Why do you think ol' Rupert bought it up? Not because it is some pointless piece of crap.
I for one do not use MySpace, however I am not the target user for this service. Most of you who hate it only do so because you hate the fact that the everyday Joe has an easy, popular means to put themselves on-line. You want the masses going to sites and taking in the content others think is good for them, instead of posting their own.
The point of all this is that the internet is changing, always has been and always will. This is just the latest chapter. I am not saying MySpace is the bets thing since sliced bread, but those of you who completely discount it and others like it are going to wake up one day and wonder why they have been left behind. - jahelton81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Unfortunately digg is not on the list."
Actually, that's probably a good thing. Does anybody really want digg rubbing elbows on a list with MySpace? - dankoleary, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I agree total absolute crap. I want to know how many of the 51 million registered all time users come back at least weekly. Like my cable TV package comes with Lifetime movies, so I'm technically a subscriber. However, it would be a cold day in hell before I'd actually watch something on there. I suspect MySpace has some funny numbers going on,
- tgilber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Did a little research on the statistics. The "51 million unique visitors" was a statistic produced by "intrusive/volunteer" polling methods, i.e. something similar to Alexa. It's done by a company called comScore, which provides some very hand wavy details on their methodology. But, one of the "perks" of participating in their "survey" is "attractive sweepstakes prizes," which leads me to believe that a huge percentage of the net population will have learned to tune them out like so many other sweepstakes.
So, more accurately, 30% of comScore users visit mySpace last month. You be the judge whether that's an accurate sample of the US internet population or not. I personally don't think it is... but woe are the ways of "volunteer" surveying of traffic. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+530% of the INTERNET POPULATION
- LordFate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5100% of statistics cannot be trusted
- dWhisper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Just to answer the question posed...
"Can 51 million people be a fad? "
Yes. There have been "fads" that have spread far, far more and involved more people. - mrmidgetman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6POKEMON!!!!
- CollateralDmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The article specifies 'Internet Population,' so presumably this means that of the internet using population in the US, 30% use myspace. I think this figure is also false, but there you have it.
- RandomPrecision, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Unfortunately digg is not on the list."
What the hell does that have to do with anything in the article? It seems a lot of people seem to think the only things worth reporting are blog surveys that say Digg is cool.
Who cares? What a contentless waste. - fluffebunnie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's good to be the minority on this one.
- ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The article says 30% of Internet users not all people. I doubt the number is very accurate. Anybody who has run a popular website knows a large amount of that is bots. They have an alexa rating of 5. I don’t think anybody doubts they have a lot of visitors. The site has had tons of media exposure. I don’t think there are many Internet users out there that have not been there at least once. It is the top community site for sure.
- ensert13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So you're saying 30% of the US internet population is Emo?
- froman98, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think the one thing they don't compensate for is all of the duplicate and fake accounts. Just to skew the statistics, I just signed up 4 accounts. Hahaha.
- jonstafari, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4myspace... what's that? arf arf
seriously though, i'm suspecting a "join the cool crowd" marketing scheme from Mr Murdoch and company.
so this article just states "social networking sites" -- the article says, "MySpace was the seventh most visited site on the Internet last month." I wonder how myspace compares to other sites, non-social networking ones
screw myspace... I want my BB's back!
sigh - xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Exactly.
- LucasOman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think this is the first interesting, intelligent, purposeful comment in this entire thread. Thanks!
Yes, that's a terrible sampling method. It's not even taught as a method for consideration. It's just wrong.
I guess my biggest gripe about the article is not the way the information was calculated, because there's probably no other way to do it, but that they didn't explain any of the caveats involved. They just stated it like fact. Silly. - FuManchu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And the "internet population" is an unknown -- due to the fact that multiple users on one account vary widely.
- procdaddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Statistics are ALWAYS right.
"They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4this is absolute BULL *****. this is a ploy to get people to think that they need myspace or that its not gay (which it is) and that its ok to have it because its now a norm.
this is an attempt by whatever corporation owns myspace to get more people to sign up. a PATHETIC and OBVIOUS attempt. myspace is PATHETIC - thephillyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Everyone is bitching about the methods used to generate the statistics provided, but regardless of the specifics, MySpace is fundamentally altering the way young people use the interweb. None of my "under 30" friends send me email anymore, everything goes through their MySpace accounts and if you take a random look around the site, its amazing to see how often people keep up with their accounts, with a majority checking in at least once a week. All this on top of the fact that you really have to put some work in to customize your profile (in the most ugly way possible, by the way).
My big problem with MySpace is that with Newscorp and Rupert Murdoch at the helm, the site's commercial and marketing interests are going to take precedence over the social networking possibilities that a site with a 60 million user base could provide. Add some calendar, photo sharing and other collaboration functionality to the site and it could really become a powerful replacement for a lot of popular web sites (as well as a heckuva testing ground for these types of online apps). But we're more likely to see spam type messaging related to the release of the latest summer movie or fake MySpace profiles featuring the characters of some cheesy tv sitcom. - fluffebunnie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wait! What did I just say? Hahaha!
FTW ----> 30% is not a majority. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I dunno.... I think we can all agree that 30% of the US are complete and total ***** morons. It doesn't seem like a big stretch. ;)
- JayRod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3MySpace is probably as popular as AOL was maybe 10 years ago. People talk to each other and see profiles and look for other people to maybe hook up with. Or maybe just go on line at the same time as your friends and get together and chat. All this is is the new AOL, but for free. That's why it's popular. Maybe it's just a fad. Maybe it will be around for a while until it gets boring
- Valo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Okay maybe its not 51 million users using myspace, its hard to believe that myself too. But the chart does show the facts that myspace is being used almost 3 to 1 as compared to other sites. It doesn't matter if those people have mutible accounts or if its spam. I know myspace keeps its spam down as much as it can. This chart does have a great swing of error but still its safe to say that the other sites have their share of the same inacurrsy as myspace does. Plus the study was done by people who know what they are doing. (Of course dankoleary maybe half right, it might have been Rupbert Murdock who paid for this study and that might have skewed the rateings).
- posterposter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"MySpace racked up visits from 51.4 million unique visitors in the US"
How can they tell that I'm unique? So I check while at school in the computer lab. I check while at home with my desktop. And sometimes my laptop decides that it wants to join my neighbor's wireless network without telling me and I check myspace once again. If I haven't logged in (which I tend not to do since I seem to be checking out a lot of band sites), how can they determine that I'm a unique visitor? 3 different sets of cookies, 3 different IP addresses, 3 different computers, one person. Am I missing something? - scottc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+330% is inaccurate. Consider that, according to the US census bureau about 19% of the population is either under 5 years old or over 65. Each of those groups have close to 0% representation on myspace. 1% of the US population is in prison or jail. No internet access there except in rare circumstances. Another 1% is illiterate - truly illiterate meaning they can't read or write ANY language. Of course a fair amount of those are probably in the prison population. Then you have people whose only language is not one commonly used on myspace. And of course the biggest excluded group of all, those without internet access.
I would be surprised if 5% of the US population used myspace. Advertisers relying on statistics like that sure make the click fraud whiners look silly, don't they? - Metman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Count me in the 70% proudly...
Never been there.. dont care to. - clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5myspace SUCKS. That site is just simply aweful. It should be taken down and never even thought of again.
- sillywampa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I created an account to see what all the hubub was about. I got several friends requests from spambots. how many of their users are actually spambots??
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I can't wait until I'm over 40.
- friend18, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Myspace is so cool it's uncool. Everyone and there mom is on myspace.
- llbbl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I wouldn't call what everyone on myspace is doing as "use"...
- LucasOman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's hard to get most diseases by rubbing elbows. If Myspace ever shares a bed with Digg, though, I'll be worried.
- Eronysis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+220% of the entire U.S. population are functionally illiterate.
Myspace has allowed a generation of basement dwelling morons to feel web savvy.
Then allowed another generation of creepy morons to prey on them.
Allowing another generation of greedy morons to sue myspace.
Now before you ask I am the geeky moron watching the entire thing laughing. -
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