Myspace's relaunch pitch is about to become EU law for everyone
The revived platform will center on Top 8 friends, profile songs and a chronological feed as regulators push rivals toward similar rules.
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Myspace's relaunch pitch is about to become EU law for everyone
The Vanderhook brothers, whose company Viant Technology owns Myspace, have confirmed they intend to relaunch the platform. They made the announcement in a documentary titled Myspace, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and also features co-founder Chris DeWolfe. “We still own Myspace,” Tim Vanderhook said. “We are stewards of the Myspace brand at this point, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Vanderhook brothers, owners of MySpace via Vant Technology, confirm that they want to revive the social network around a flow without algorithms. An argument that could fall into the water as the European Union imposes rules similar to Meta.
MySpace's owners want to bring it back. But does it belong in 2026?
We might get MySpace before we get GTA 6. Anyone aware of the internet in 2006 knows about MySpace, the music-driven networking site that arguably pushed the world into our modern era of social media (and made sure everybody had at least one friend thanks to Tom). In its heyday, MySpace had over 100 million monthly active users and was getting more traffic than Google. Then Facebook went big, and MySpace passed into obscurity. That is, of course…
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