Facebook Finally Catches Up To MySpace In The U.S.

June 15, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News

It’s by. Facebook is now as large as MySpace in the U.S., according to May info released today by comScore. Facebook actually passed MySpace by a smidgeon, with 70.278 million strange visitors compared to MySpace’s 70.255 million. While Facebook passed MySpace on a worldwide basis last year, as recently as last March, Facebook was still trailing MySpace by 9 million strange visitors.

In May, Facebook gained another 2.8 million strange visitors in the U.S. MySpace, which has been stagnating lately and as a aftereffect now has a new CEO, lost about 700,000 different visitors during the month. A few months ago, it looked like it might take Facebook until the end of the summer to catch up to MySpace, but it has already done so.

Don’t expect MySpace to reverse that trend and regain its top spot anytime soon. Having just successfully launched its “vanity URLs,” Facebook looks to be on the verge of another hype cycle. Just 15

minutes after the launch, a million public had signed up for vanity URLs. And as of sometime today, some 6 million users will have apparently signed up — just three days after it launched. Practically everyone is talking about the company once again, from blogs to the mainstream media.

And all that stems from a feature (vanity URLs) that MySpace actually had from the get-go. That itself seems to speak to how by that game is. And when you reverse the situation —MySpace recently launched a site-wide IM toolbar, that looks a lot like the one Facebook had — basically no one talked about it.

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