Pop sensation Lady Gaga is launching her own social networking website exclusively for her fans.

Gaga, 25, has used online forums to boost her worldwide appeal and has become the first celebrity to register 18 million followers on Twitter, Daily Star reported.

Now the `Poker Face` hitmaker is putting her technology skills to use by founding her very own networking site for her devotees, who she lovingly calls “little monsters”.

The site, called littlemonsters.com, is currently being set up and the webpage invites fans to register with their email address.

The site has been set up with the help of social media start-up company Backplane, in which Gaga is an investor.

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Ticketfly founder Andrew Dreskin says the music industry now turns around Facebook and Twitter when it comes to social networks. How does he see MySpace? “MySpace is pretty much an also-ran for what we do”.

The news about waning interest from the music industry (granted this is one example and there is still plenty of music on MySpace) follows recent reports that advertisers were abandoning Myspace as rumours of sale to Vevo swirled.

But music and advertising are not its only problems. There are also reports that the booming social games market is taking its leave too. Zynga is reported to be shutting down games on MySpace. Zynga is said to have axed several games on MySpace including ‘Mafia Wars’, ‘Fashion Wars’ and ‘YoVill

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