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# iLike Co-Founder On It’s Demise: Murdoch “Squandered” Their 60 Million Users
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/ilike-co-founder-on-its-demise-murdoch-squandered-their-60-million-users/
- Published: 2012-02-09T09:41:13.000Z
- Updated: 2012-02-09T09:41:13.000Z
- Description: As we reported, music social network iLike was shut down on Tuesday with the url re-directed to MySpace. Just two and a half years earlier, iLike had 60 million registered. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/02/ilike-co-founder-on-its-demise-murdoch-squandered-their-60-million-us
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As we [reported](https://www.hypebot.com/remember-ilike-the-social-music-network-officially-died-today/), music social network [iLike was shut down](https://www.hypebot.com/remember-ilike-the-social-music-network-officially-died-today/) on Tuesday with the url re-directed to **MySpace**. Just two and a half years earlier, iLike had 60 million registered users, was the # music app on **Facebook** and had just been bought by MySpace and Parent NewsCorp. Now Hadi Partovi, who co-founded and ran **iLike** with his twin brother, Ali Partovi is peaking out.

> "It’s sad to see a social music site that once boasted **60 million users** (more than Spotify, or Pinterest), reduced to nothing," Partovi told [Geek Wire](http://www.geekwire.com/2012/60m-users-ilike-cofounder-weighs-demise?ref=hypebot.com). **Rupert Murdoch squandered a lot of tech assets** under his management, the fall of iLike is just scratching the surface. Given how much money Rupert makes off spreading the evil cancer of Fox 'News,' I think he **deserves the bad rap he gets for this mismanagement**."  
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> "But much of iLike’s demise is also due to **radical changes in the Facebook platform.** If you look at the top Facebook apps of 2007 – iLike, Flixster, Slide, RockYou, SGN, Zynga, only one of them evolved enough to survive these changes, **the rest died like guinea pigs**."

**More:** [Remember iLike? The Social Music Network Officially Died Tuesday](https://www.hypebot.com/remember-ilike-the-social-music-network-officially-died-today/)