Live Spaces loses 15 percent of its visitors in the past year


Posted by absorbation on Sat 15 Mar 2008 (14:15 GMT) (1925 views)
Thanks to LiveSide for this find, I believe they sum up the situation very well:

According to some new numbers included in an email from Nielsen Online today, Windows Live Spaces, never a big player in the US market for social networking tools, lost significant ground over the past year.

Nielsen Online provides February's top U.S. social networking sites and blogs for your reference. They are ranked by unique audience and rounded to the nearest thousand, so MySpace.com had 55.4 million unique visitors in February 2008, growing 4 percent over February 2007. Please note that these are custom lists compiled by the Nielsen Online PR team with the help of our media analysts. While these lists are not meant to be exhaustive, they provide a good idea of the significant players in each space.





In my opinion Spaces was only popular because of its integration within Messenger. To put things bluntly, all its features have been mimicked by others services who have made them better and provided a key relationship between social networking with friends. For me, Windows Live Spaces is just not practical.

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Comments:


Comment by K_I_R_E_E_K
Posted on Wed 19 Mar 2008 (16:45 GMT)
i don't think so, WLspaces is great, much more organized and simple then myspace, but when ppl want to make they're own personal page, they often go to myspace.

all you need is lot's of publicity and WLspaces will gather many fans.


Comment by KenBW2
Posted on Sun 16 Mar 2008 (00:26 GMT)
Not that I use social Networking, like, but I find WLSpaces a good one - it's what SN is supposed to be without all the crap involved.


Comment by Chris
Posted on Sat 15 Mar 2008 (20:38 GMT)
Interesting stats.

For me, I find Live spaces hard to navigate and most of the time its very slow.

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