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For some context, that is 1/27 of Facebook's monthly users, or 1/10 of Google Plus'.

EDIT: was "1/270 of Facebook's monthly users", now corrected.

> MySpace reached 50.6 million unique users in the U.S. in November.

So that is actually a hell of a lot better than the headline leads you to believe. That's about 1/6th of the entire US population that - according to the article - checked in on Myspace last November.

Yes, I also find that hard to believe.

EDIT: I stand corrected, the comment below is bollocks. Honest apologies.

That's about 1/6th of the entire US population

It baffles me every time when Americans think that the world stops at their borders.

What makes you think all these people are Americans? We're talking a 120th of the world's population, what do you find hard to believe?

It's because the article literally says it's 50.6 million uniques in the US: "Between desktop and mobile devices, MySpace reached 50.6 million unique users in the U.S. in November. That’s a massive surge of 575% versus the same month in 2013."

I read this as implying their uniques (as measured by, say, Google Analytics) were 50.6 million in the US, which probably means less than 50.6 million Americans visited the site in Nov. For instance, if every one of those uniques visited on both their smart phone and their computer, then it'd actually be 25 million real people. The truth is likely somewhere between 25 and 50 million Americans visited in Nov.

Ok, I'm officially a moron today. Thanks for taking the time to elaborate. I had read the article, but apparently not well enough.

I hadn't thought about how devices can double count uniques. But this is still massive. I thought 50 million world wide was a lot when I saw the headline and got very surprised when I read it was referring to only the US

The parent is basing it on the article (as quoted). If you're going to be snarky, at least read the comment/article.

These kind of comments pop up all the time, Europeans are hypersensitive and complain at the drop of a hat.

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