The Rise and Fall of Myspace
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In 2006, the most visited website in America was My space. It wasn't Yahoo. It wasn't eBay. Not even Google, but just five years later, News Corp sold MySpace for Thirty-five million dollars.
A fraction? of the 580 million it had paid for it. So how does one of the biggest websites in the world become irrelevant? That fast? There are three huge reasons MySpa disappeared, and none of them Вер Фейсбук, бо і вас з трі містець та опендар фейсбук.
To take over, but we need to back up here for a second because If you're under a certain age or Over a certain age, as in my case. The name MySpace Might not mean much to you.
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