The Great Fail Podcast: Why the World Unfriended MySpace

Once the most dominant social networking company, here's how it all fell apart

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Before there was Facebook, there was MySpace, once the world’s most dominant social networking company.

In the summer of 2005, one of the biggest deals in internet history made headlines when News Corp, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, acquired MySpace for $580 million in cash.

In the business realm, it seemed that with the backing of the media giant, MySpace would have the world at its fingertips. And for a while, it appeared that Myspace was going to be unstoppable. But then it all fell apart.

Find out how MySpace got unfriended on Episode 51 of The Great Fail. Stream the new episode below, listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts or find it on Spotify.