April 26th 27th: MySpace China goes online

Remember we told you MySpace China would come online yesterday? Well, we lied. Actually, Sohu IT lied — they got some bad info. Thankfully they weren’t too far off. As of now 1 am on April 27th, a day later, MySpace China is up and running. We’d love to give you a first hand review, but the site just went live 30 minutes ago, we haven’t had much time to explore. One thing we can tell you is that MySpace China is linked to the world database. In other words, if you have a previous account overseas, you can access it on the new site, except all the links are in Chinese, naturally.

So both of these links work:

http://www.myspace.cn/shanghaiist
http://www.myspace.com/shanghaiist

Seems like the way you can tell if someone signed up through .cn is if their city still shows up in Chinese when you are viewing the .com version. And some guy name Wukong is the Chinese Tom, the guy who is everyone's friend. Wukong has 1,508 friends right now — that might be a good way to gauge the growth of MySpace.cn. For now, however, we will celebrate that for the next 10 minutes at least, our Alexa ranking is higher than MySpace.cn's.

Alright, we are off to make some new friends. If you like to be our friend, go here and click “加为好友”. Get cracking already, see you online.