CrackSpace has relaunched as iHipHop and they’re claiming "almost 800,000 users"!
It looks like this number comes from the number of Total Registered Members, 789,430, currently found at the bottom of the View All Members page.
But if one checks Alexa and Compete for CrackSpace [crackspace.com] traffic, the number of people actually using the site appears radically different from the number of registered members.
The discrepancy is most likely due to members like $ DEEBO $, who joined back in 2007 and never logged in again, or to members who only occasionally login to the site.
Sounds like they have almost 800,000 registered members both active and inactive rather than that number of actual users.
Update:
My bad, as Rollo informed me in the comments, their main domain was actually hiphopcrack.com rather than crackspace.com. Hiphopcrack.com does quite well at both Alexa and Compete. So, though there still is going to be a discrepancy between the registered members and the active users and there are some interesting traffic patterns, it’s certainly not the exaggeration it at first appeared.
Related ProHipHop Coverage:
Dismal Outlook for Many Hip Hop Social Networks
"Urban" MySpace/YouTube-Inspired Sites: CrackSpace,
MinoritySpace, Earwax Video Network
For some reason that site sounds familiar.
I think their traffic before was under http://www.hiphopcrack.com on alexa.