The Friendster Blog

Friendster on Twitter?

You probably might be scratching your head on why a social network is actively promoting another social media tool. Isn’t it a conflict of interest since “technically” they’re our competitor? Are we shooting ourselves on the foot for this one?

Social Media is all about integration – maximizing the potential of all available tools to be able to build a strong and lasting relationship with our subscribers. Social Media sites are very similar to TV channels, users use more than one.

So to answer the question:  Yes, Friendster is on Twitter. Follow us.

www.twitter.com/friendster

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Friendster is now available in Tagalog, the most popular language in the Philippines that is used by over 95 million people Worldwide! Friendster’s mobile site m.friendster.com will also launch in Tagalog in the coming days. This new language addition on Friendster gives the 14 million Internet users in the Philippines and users around the world a greater choice of languages with which to navigate the site, share content and use Friendster’s complete set of social networking features. Users can set their language of choice on Friendster several ways through links at the top right of every page of the Friendster.com website, the “Settings” link at the website and the “Language” or “Settings” link at the bottom of the homepage of the mobile site at m.friendster.com.

Dear Friendster Community,

As you may have seen, Friendster.com has undergone maintenance at various times over the past few days. Friendster’s unscheduled downtime was due to a power outage at our outsourced data center in Santa Clara, California where Friendster’s servers are co-located along side approximately 50 other companies. As a result, Friendster, as well as a number of other online companies, experienced unscheduled and unavoidable downtime. At this time, Friendster is back online and our team is working quickly to restore everything back to normal.

Additionally, you may have experienced some inconsistencies with your friend count on Friendster. All of your friend connections and data stored on Friendster are in tact and will be corrected shortly. It’s simply taking some time for us to restore each user account as Friendster has over 85 million user accounts globally.

Lastly, if you’ve received any on site messages or SMS text alerts regarding our downtime or your friend count, please disregard them as they were initiated by members of our community and do not contain accurate information about what happened.

Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

-The Friendster Team
Some Frequently Asked Questions:

1) What happened to my friends?
Currently, the number of friends in your friends list may be displayed incorrectly. We’re working on this and all user accounts will be returned back to normal shortly.

2) Are my friends lost permanently?
No. The data for all friend connections is intact and is not lost.

3) When can this be fixed?
Friendster is currently working on this and we aim to have this fixed within 24 hours.

4) Can I still add friends while my friend list is inaccurate?
Yes, users can still add new friends and use other features of the site.

For more help, please visit our Help Center.

We’re listening…. based on your feedback we’ve increased the limits on albums and photos. You can now create 20 albums and upload up to 2000 photos.

Have fun uploading and sharing more photos!

- Friendster Team

This week we launched a new home page design (image below).

With this new design:

• We bring a new look and feel to the home page
• We moved the registration on home page - making it easier for new users to become part of Friendster.

Stay tuned for more updates….

As usual we appreciate your feedback and suggestions to improve.

- Friendster Team

We have improved photos once again! Now you can organize your photos into albums, title each album, and share publicly or privately. You can organize existing photos into albums, or upload new photos into albums. Your friends are notified every time you add a new album or edit an existing album.

Personalize your profile with an animated avatar. They’re loads of options — you choose the body, clothes, hairstyle, animation and more! Add an Avatar!

Share your favorite music with your friends by adding music to your profile. We have added a number of new music apps to our growing apps directory. You can quickly add a music app to your page complete with your favorite music. Your friends are notified every time you add a new app so they can see your app, and add one to their page too!