MySpace Goes Offline

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Found on: Mashable.com

Hear that? That’s the sound of 80 million people hitting the refresh button.

MySpace, one of the world’s most popular sites (perhaps the most popular), has suffered a major outage today - the URL fails to load at all. At 6:40pm last night, Tom posted a message on the leading social networking site stating that a power outage had taken out the MySpace servers. The site came back to “normal” service within a few hours, but after some unreliable performance today, MySpace.com is down completely. This is obviously causing a massive spike in the number of MySpace-related posts at Technorati, particularly from LiveJournal blogs (search for “myspace not working” and you’ll see what I mean).