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I think myspace is still a viable place for a musician to set up an online presence.

• fredoliveira 16y ago
  Unfortunately, I have to disagree (and time and numbers are proving me right). Once I had the idea of scraping visitor numbers for major musicians every day in order to trace how their profile views were affected by the rise of Twitter and Facebook, but never did. It is, however, quite visible. If you're a musician, Myspace simply doesn't give you the tools to provide your audience updates the way they want to consume them. Their twitter-like stream is limited to the internal homepage that you can see while logged in, which doesn't make sense. People want real-time and Myspace doesn't give them that.
• klous 16y ago
  MySpace's strong area is still in bands and artists. Myspace should have freemium CMS tools so that these artists can have their own domain with interactivity similar to the way Ning encourages you to roll-you-own social network.
• phreanix 16y ago
  Facebook's got a My Band app, works just as well and Facebook has a much better feature for promoting the page to personal friends.
• mortenjorck 16y ago
  It is, but I can't imagine it's growing compared to the competition. What Facebook has done to Myspace's social networking user base, Last.fm is well on its way to doing to Myspace's musician base. It's the same pattern, countering Myspace's rustic offering with vastly superior user experience and more ambitious functionality. Anecdotally, I haven't logged into the Myspace account for my music project in at least 18 months. All the action's on Last.fm.
• rbreve 16y ago
  A lot of musicians are moving to facebook and soundcloud