Coming up this week, let’s talk about whatever happened to myspace. At one point, myspace was THE biggest, social media platform in the world.

Within a month of its launch in 2003, it had an incredible 1 million users and those numbers grew exponentially. At its peak in the mid 2000s, myspace had 100 million users per month. 1 billion user accounts. More people clicked on myspace than they did google.

And then, something happened. The bottom dropped out of myspace.

On this week’s episode of the Risktory Podcast, I look at the decline of myspace. And I look at whether myspace might be a manifestation of Ray Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns.

The Risktory Podcast is created, written, produced and hosted by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Alan Spiljak – Clouds
Alan Spiljak – Forgotten
Alan Spiljak – Light blue
Alan Spiljak – Empty days
Alan Spiljak – Stars above
Alan Spiljak – Not the end
Alan Spiljak – Sun
Alan Spiljak – Flying away
Alan Spiljak – Time
Alan Spiljak – Fantasy in my mind

Related Episode
https://www.spreaker.com/user/jacintheagalpin/ray-kurzweil

Bibliography
https://www.businessinsider.com/ray-kurzweil-law-of-accelerating-returns-2015-5
https://www.appletoncreative.com/blog/myspace-what-happened-and-where-is-it-now/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/business/myspace-user-data.html
https://www.failory.com/cemetery/myspace
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/18/happened-myspace-tom-now-8930207/