Peter Kafka, Managing Editor, Silicon Alley Insider

MySpace: We're Not Toast

January 17, 2008 at 12:05 am PT

Earlier today we noted that two different Web metrics showed MySpace losing ground and remarked that the News Corp. unit, which normally works hard to promote growth statistics, hadn’t squawked in protest. Two hours later came this press release: “MYSPACE MARKET SHARE GROWS IN TYPICALLY INACTIVE PERIOD.”

We’re running the full release at the end of the story, but we’ll sum it up here: The headline isn’t accurate–there’s no data showing MySpace’s market share increasing.

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