That dwarfs the next biggest network, Facebook, which had 14 million users, followed by MSN Spaces, with 8.7 million.

Microsoft plans for the first time to offer a service called MSN Spaces, which will allow users to create personal Web logs, or blogs.

With this goal, MSN Spaces finds itself competing with similar services like MySpace and Yahoo!

Users also had the option to set access rights for visitors to their MSN Space based on the relationship between them (e.g. Friends, Family etc.).

Visitors were also granted when their contacts' had updated their MSN Space.

The change also resolved some oft-criticised characteristics of MSN Spaces, such as the alignment of content on the computer screen.

Last month Microsoft introduced its own blogging service, MSN Spaces.

However, on MSN Spaces an unlimited amount of images can be added without the need of paying.

Windows Live Spaces, the next generation of MSN Spaces.

Last spring, Volvo spent several million dollars to sponsor Microsoft's MSN Spaces, a site that offers free Web logs and personal pages.