Well..Myspace is really broken.

Yep, it appears as though this popular social networking site (that I am a member of) is experiencing it's second in history catastrophic failure. I am wondering if the p.r. is going to blame this on a califonian power outtage again, or if they will report the true problem? Their homepage works, however, upon attempting to login you are presented with an error of "Login is temporarily disabled while we fix some database problems. We'll be back shortly. 3/10/2007". The worlds largest social networking website experienced a very similar failure like this in July 2006. at the time the member number was around 80 million. Now it is over 105 million. With a following like that, you would expect them to have a more redundant system, as was addressed last time the site had a major malfunction. Apparently cents matter more than sense. This outage i personally noticed at about 3:30 am E.S.T., and 4 hours later 7:30 E.S.T., the site is still non functional. Profiles don't display and the site will not login. Ad's on the homepage also haven't changed as they normally do dynamically. I'm interested to see if this was a hacker attack, how many profiles will be altered or completely missing. With the "friends lists" averaging in the 500's, other up into the thousands, and some band's and musical artists well into the tens or hundreds of thousands, how many of those will still be intact? With Myspaces ever growing popularity and user base, could this be a servere hit to the social networking site?

On an end note....on an averagely boring friday night, I would normally surf the net and periodically check myspace for updates through my nocturnal schedule, being that the site is down I found another way to amuse myself for the evening. Playing the origional unreal tournament. It's great fun. What have others done without their usual late night browsing of myspace?