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MySpace 'has turned off broadband users with HTML'
Wednesday 24th June 2009, by Daniel King
Broadband customers may be turning away from MySpace due to the fact that it has been unwilling to adapt to their needs and become more user friendly, one expert has suggested.
A spokeswoman for the Social Media Portal (SMP), a company which specialises in monitoring and analysing the various online networking sites that currently operate, said traffic to the service has fallen because of its complicated nature.
Rachel Hawkes, co-creator and co-editor of the organisation, said MySpace was struggling in comparison to its closest rival Facebook because it continued to use hypertext mark-up language - or HTML - as its framework.
She explained, although the social portal was one of the first sites to provide mainstream access to networking facilities, consumers had migrated to other services as they are often simpler and designed to be user friendly.
However, Ms Hawkes added some people did still maintain their sites for storing photographs and promoting their artistic endeavours.
"MySpace still has an important role to play and hopefully the refocus and new management team will allow them to focus on growing areas, i.e. MySpace Music - and cement a solid position," she concluded.
In a recent blog post on the Guardian website, Bobbie Johnson wrote that MySpace was cutting its staff numbers by 30 per cent and was also closing some of its offices in an attempt to rebuild itself.
Facebook on the other hand, is apparently being celebrated in a new Hollywood movie, which some suggest will detail its popularity. A number of sites are also reporting that Oscar-nominated director David Fincher is being courted to helm the project.
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