Myspace is the #5 largest website on the internet, essentially an interactive FOAF (Friend of a Friend) social networking system, soon to be purchased by News Corp. for $580 million. Myspace will then be owned and managed by Fox Interactive Media, along with foxsports.com, foxnews.com and fox.com.

Simply known as “Tom”, the sysop with 23,241,253 “friends” made this announcement last night:

…if you are in the UK and you can’t get to MySpace this morning, it’s because British Telcom decided to shut down your access. this has happened before with other ISPs – they don’t believe the amount of traffic we’re pushing is real. so go here and tell them its real and you want your myspace back!!

According to New Atlanta Communications, “MySpace.com received over 15.5 million unique visitors and received more than 7.5 billion page views in the month of May, making it the fifth busiest web domain according to the May 2005 Media Metrix Report by comScore.”