Once again, the actual number of users of the MySpace social networking website has come into question, with the 100 million figure quoted by other sites leaving out an important detail.

Disputing The Amount Of MySpace Users

Is it 100 million users or 100 million accounts? That’s the question asked at the ForeverGeek blog, which attempted to debunk the 100 million figure.

Those 100 million accounts represent about 43 million active users, based on an unscientific look at a sample of randomly selected accounts on MySpace by ForeverGeek. Here’s how ForeverGeek broke down the sample:

The sample indicated that more than 50 percent of the site’s accounts never see another logged in visit after a month. “Based on assuming that type 5 and type 6 are the real ‘users’ of MySpace, it turns out that MySpace really has roughly 43,000,000 users,” ForeverGeek noted.

MySpace user figures have been disputed before. In February, Jupiter Research analyst Nate Elliot called MySpace’s membership figures a “mirage,”, an assessment Fox Interactive Media president Ross Levinsohn disputed in an email to WebProNews:

I will tell you that Jupiter's ascertain that My Space audience figures are inflated is nothing short of criminal. Call any of the official ratings services (Nielsen, comScore, Alexa) and you will see that Mr. Elliot's comments are utterly false.