The Social Protocol For 8/17/09: MySpace Last Try At Relevance; Twitter Smacks Down Pay Schemes from USocial
But they are already irrelevant to most now, even with this latest acquisition for a whopping $20 million. MySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, we’ve confirmed with multiple sources. The deal, which should close this week, will be MySpace’s first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April 2009. The price is “around $20 million.” I guess for music, My Space is still rele....oh, who am I kidding. Also in news, another great move from the best social network right now : According to a statement sent to us by uSocial, who markets products like a “$1,000 Twitter followers for $87” package, “Twitter has recently moved to [shut us down], by claiming [we're] “spamming.” uSocial takes issue with this claim, saying, “the definition of spam is using electronic messaging to send unsolicited communication and as we don’t use Twitter for this, the claims are false.” The company probably put itself on Twitter’s radar last week, whe...