MySpace #1 US Destination Last Week

An anonymous reader writes "Hitwise is reporting that MySpace has reached the top, surpassing Yahoo! Mail as the most visited site on the internet for US users. Seeing a 4300% increase in visits in just two short years, this internet sensation has come quite a long ways. From the article: 'To put MySpace's growth in perspective, if we look back to July 2004 myspace.com represented only .1% of all Internet visits. This time last year myspace.com represented 1.9% of all Internet visits. With the week ending July 8, 2006 market share figure of 4.5% of all the US Internet visits.'"

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In Unrelated News...

[cyranoVR]

In completely unrelated news, Yahoo! has announced that starting next month users of their free Yahoo! Mail service will have a new feature: pictures of scantly-clad 16 year-olds on their mail home page.

Reminds me of this old joke

[rolfwind]

http://www.satirewire.com/news/0008/satire-fbiteen s.shtml

Re:Reminds me of this old joke

[enitime]

I always hear it as:

The Internet: Where men are men, women are men, and children are federal agents.

So this means...

[Anonymous Coward]

that myspace.com is now offically the new sewer of the internet?

the downhill trend of quality of life continues

YESSZZ OMG OMG this is the rockz0rx

[ravenspear]

We hit NO. 1 peeps, this EEE the SHEET Yo, just ballin'

THES IS out the ass omg OMG I am speechless

LOng live EMO! peace and love to all. and BOOBIES!

:kisses:

yours,
xxxzzzMYsPACErUlEsmEyyyyzzzxxx

MySpace replacement

[Ruins]

Project Name: "A Life"
Project Goal: Obtain "A Life" and do something with it once obtained.
Probability of success:
(World Population - Number of people on MySpace) / World Population

Really?

[Comatose51]

I didn't realized that pedophiles and their victims make up such a significant portion of the Internet population. I kid, I kid.

Re:counting hits?

[d34thm0nk3y]

How do you obtain their numbers? Are they using DNS? Are they putting sniffers on all the core routers? Is this even possible to any degree of accuracy? It seems this junk science is probably about as reliable as Neilsen ratings...

And more importantly, does Netcraft confirm it?

Re:blwh

[gardyloo]

So, I was wrong.

      You must be new here. ;)

Prediction:

[John Garvin]

90% of the replies to this story will amount to "I believe I'm too cool for MySpace."

not a problem

[r00t]

The "single women all over who post their info online" are 45-year-old fat males.

The "children" are FBI agents.

Re:Not again

[tonsofpcs]

All it means is they got slashdotted in the past week....

Re:blwh

[balloonhead]

Not really - these aren't real people causing hits.

You'll notice the timing of the traffic surge with recent terrorist event and subsequent legislation.

It's mostly just PATRIOT act research by the gummint to check out prospective employees.

Re:blwh

[gardyloo]

To be fair[...]

      Wow. That's two of you this evening!

Re:blwh

[Vo0k]

Seems you are depressed. You may want to visit that site, MySpace.com, where you will find many other depressed people with similar problems and be able to share your misery with them.

Re:"Seeing a 4300% increase in visits in just two.

[Jeff250]

In other news I made a site yesterday and I was the only visitor. Today there were 43 visitors.

That would only be an increase of 4200%.

I just realized...

[thebigo195]

Myspace is Slashdot's Anti-Christ.