MySpace has taken a bold step and allowed a large quantity of bulk user data to be put up for sale on startup data marketplace InfoChimps. Data offered includes user playlists, mood updates, mobile updates, photos, vents, reviews, blog posts, names and zipcodes. Friend lists are not included. Remember, Facebook and Twitter may be the name of the game these days in tech circles, but MySpace still sees 1 billion user status updates posted every month. Those updates will now be available for bulk analysis.http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/myspace_bulk_data.php

Chilling, and the article discusses Facebook and Twitter too.

Privacy has a price nowadays. Go on any of these sites and you forfeit it all in the name of "marketplace researching".

yes google does the same..except these guys have more personal information available to them.

NOt sure what good collecting Status Updates really does, but then I'm not into marketing. Hope they enjoy millions of "I broke up with my boyfriend" updates.