Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 499
Australia, Melbourne, Bayside District, in an old apartment, a piercing alarm sounded from a bedroom on the third floor.

"Jingle bell bell"

Today is Monday, and as a working woman, Erica was quickly woken up by the alarm clock.

When you don’t get enough sleep, you will inevitably feel a little angry when you wake up.She opened her eyes very unhappily, and when she saw that the sky was just getting dark, she suddenly became even more angry.

It's still early to go to work. Why does the alarm clock go off when you can obviously get some sleep?

Just as she was about to close her eyes and go back to sleep, Erica suddenly sat up again within 2 minutes and finally remembered why she had set the alarm clock so early.

She hurriedly climbed out of bed, ran to the computer desk in a few steps, and turned on the LCD monitor.

Because the host was not turned off overnight, even the time to turn it on was saved.

Erica quickly logged into the Twitter website and quickly entered her account and password. She did it in one go, obviously having practiced it many times.

She didn't stop for a second and went directly to her personal homepage, not daring to waste even a minute.

After entering the homepage, I pressed the [Farmville] button immediately and started to log in to my virtual farm.

She wanted to waste time "collecting the food", but when she took a closer look, Erica was dumbfounded.

"Son of bitch, Jason you bastard actually stole my food, I only have a few resources to collect the [Cherry Bomb] fragments.

Fuck off, I curse you to never have a girlfriend in your life.”

Erica yelled angrily on the spot. She was only delayed for a moment, but as a result, most of the harvest on the farm was stolen by her colleagues.

Jason is a bastard. When he goes to the company later, my wife will have to squeeze his balls.

Because she only had the last few scarce resources, she could gather all the fragments of the first "special plant" and synthesize the [Cherry Bomb].

This was something she had been talking about for several days, just waiting for her wish to come true tonight.

Since Erica usually likes to eat cherries, it would be more interesting to play if the virtual farm could be filled with [Cherry Bombs].

For this reason, she even set an alarm so early to collect the food, but her plan was ruined by that guy Jason.

This made Erica very angry, and she no longer even felt sleepy in an instant.

She quickly opened her friends list and checked out all the "Happy Farms" of her friends and colleagues, hoping to find something missing and perhaps find some unexpected surprises.

But everyone's "farms" seemed to have been swept away by locusts, each one cleaner than the last.

Let alone missing something, it is difficult to steal some normal resources.

This made her so angry that she fell on the bed and never fell asleep again.

……

After breakfast, Erica was the first to come to the office.

The Moula company she works for is just a start-up, with only more than 50 employees in total.

As the front desk girl, Erica is usually one of the first people to arrive at the company every day, but today she arrived earlier than usual.

But as soon as she entered the office, she was stunned. Those colleagues who were always late were actually already there.

And everyone is like Erica, basically with a pair of panda eyes, and the dark circles under the eyes clearly indicate a serious lack of sleep.

Especially that bastard Jason, who was already making coffee.

Erica ran over angrily and questioned her on the spot: "Jason, you bastard actually dared to steal my food. I could have collected all the [Cherry Bombs] today."

"Erica, we can't afford to have fun!
Who came to my farm yesterday and the day before yesterday and stole it first? I just stole it from you once. Why are you so angry? Jason responded confidently.

When Erica heard this, her teeth were itching with hatred, and she was so angry that she directly used her trump card:

"Hmph! Just wait for me!

This girl will send an email to everyone in the company if you can't insist on it for less than 30 seconds."

Although the two were colleagues, they had hooked up for a while after drinking too much at a group event.

It's just that we are all young people with a very open style. It is just for fun and we have not come together. This kind of thing is too common in the workplace of foreigners.

As for the main reason why they couldn't get together, it was because Erica was very dissatisfied with Jason's performance in bed.

At this moment, she was so angry with this dead man that she no longer cared about saving face for him and started threatening him on the spot.

If this guy doesn't give her an explanation today, he will have to tell everyone this secret.

"Don't, Erica, why don't you think I'm wrong?" Jason gave in and almost knelt down on the spot.

If his colleagues knew about something he couldn't hold on to for half a minute, how could he still be around?

Erica then smiled proudly: "Let's see if you still dare to steal my food!
As for whether to send an email, it depends on your future performance."

"Perform, you must perform!" Jason immediately flattered me, "From now on, I will grow vegetables every day for you to steal.

I won’t take it back until you finish stealing it. Is that okay? "

Erica nodded with satisfaction and replied arrogantly: "That's pretty much it. You're wise!"

In this way, she can collect the next "special plant" much faster.

Just as the two were discussing more details about this unequal treaty, a wailing sound suddenly came from the other side of the office:
"Holy Shit, why can't my computer log into the Twitter website?"

"Fuck off, why can't I get off?"

"Yeah, me too"

There was a shout in the office, because everyone rushed to the company so early because they woke up so violently after setting the alarm clock that they couldn't sleep later.

So after grinding for so long, there are still more than 20 minutes before work time.

As a result, no one expected that if they came to the company so early, they would be unable to log in to the Twitter website, which made everyone anxious.

Anyway, the leaders hadn't come to work yet, so everyone started shouting.

Just as he was shouting, Macaulay, a technical geek in the IT department, walked into the office unhurriedly.

Now everyone could not sit still, they all gathered around and started chatting.

"Macaulay, my computer can't access the Internet!"

"Come and help me, Macaulay, why can't my computer open the Twitter website?"

"Damn Macaulay, are you a network administrator? What's wrong with the company's network? Why can't anyone log in to Twitter?"

Seeing his colleagues shouting non-stop, Macaulay also had a headache.

He replied in embarrassment: "Well, guys, you can't blame me for this. The BOSS asked me to block the Twitter website."

"Why, why should I block it?"

"Yeah, why not get on Twitter, what the hell is Brett trying to do?"

"We solemnly protest, Brett, this evil capitalist, if this continues, we will go on strike collectively."

Brett is the boss of the company, and this time he was scolded by a group of young people.

Macaulay replied with a look of embarrassment: "Guys, please go to the bathroom and look in the mirror to see the dark circles and thick bags under your eyes.

Twitter’s [Farmville] game has seriously affected everyone’s rest.

Brett also thought about everyone's health, so he asked me to block Twitter for a month before talking about it.

When everyone can resume normal work, BOSS will naturally order it to be unlocked. "No, if you don't collect the vegetables, my [Corn Cannon] pieces will be stolen."

“We are all young people and in good health, so we will never miss work.

Damn Macaulay, please help everyone unblock it! "

Macaulay looked at the other party with great disgust and cursed: "Carter, you idiot, you still have the nerve to say that?

If you hadn't fallen asleep in the conference room during the meeting yesterday, how could BOSS give such an order? "

With his explanation, the whole office suddenly felt like a hornet's nest had been stabbed.

"Carter, you idiot, it turns out you are the one who harmed everyone!"

"I'm going to kill you, Carter. Is there anyone more stupid than you? How could you sleep in front of the boss?"

"I didn't mean it. I was really sleepy during the meeting yesterday."

Carter weakly explained that because he set several alarm clocks the night before to steal vegetables for planting, he didn't sleep much at all that night.

Macaulay didn't care about that much and said nonchalantly: "Anyway, the BOSS has issued a death order, so I can only do it."

"Gan, this class is so boring, why not ask for leave?"

"Oh, I don't feel well, I have to go to the hospital!"

"Hey, I feel something is wrong too. Did you, Sylvia, infect me? How about we go see a doctor together!"

In order to steal food, these guys are willing to go all out.

When Macaulay saw this, he immediately stopped him and said, "You bastards, that's enough!"

After a while, my boss came to the company and saw that there were so many people asking for leave. He might be so angry that I would block Twitter permanently.

If you want to unblock it as soon as possible, you two should be honest and behave well in the next few days! "

Everyone had no choice but to sit back at their workstations and continue fishing to vent their dissatisfaction.

If you can’t steal food, who would want to work?

Since the [Farmville] game was launched on Twitter, similar situations like Moula’s have occurred frequently around the world.

Although it may not always be such an exaggeration, a large number of users are definitely obsessed with this "Farm" game.

Especially the female player group, they are even more happy to steal food.

If you have a little more obsessive-compulsive disorder, you won't be able to turn off your computer and will be planting and stealing vegetables 24 hours a day.

It's a pity that there is no anti-addiction system in games these days. I don't know how many people are trapped in it and can't extricate themselves.

And the players are so crazy, it is like driving on a highway for Twitter, and the growth rate of registered users is simply unbelievable.

1800, 1950, 2000, 2230...

Such rapid development has not only brought huge pressure on servers and bandwidth, but also made the Big Four of Twitter feel financial pressure.

Apparently, we just raised 3000 million US dollars, but now we have almost spent more than half of it.

If the current situation continues, it is imminent to start the next round of financing, otherwise it will not last for a few months.

Twitter's new office building in San Francisco, California, USA.

Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone were surrounding Dick Costolo with headaches on their faces, urging him on.

"Dick, I will grant you another 500 million US dollars, and you must stabilize the server.

Especially in the European market, users almost made the girls in our customer service department cry because of the website lag. "

Because of the popularity of the Twitter version of "Farm Farm", the number of users is growing crazily every day, which puts the server under tremendous pressure all the time.

Because you never know when users will suddenly come online.

This requires that the server and bandwidth must have enough margin. Otherwise, if too many users log in accidentally at the same time, the website may crash at any time.

"Dick, don't forget about Flappy Bird.

There are no fewer online players than [Farmville] at the same time, so you can’t favor one over the other! "Biz Stone also quickly reminded him.

You must know that Twitter's model is different from other websites. The massive data interaction makes the server pressure not comparable to that of ordinary websites.

Because in addition to maintaining basic functional services, we also have to deal with many unexpected situations.

For example, a celebrity cheats on someone, or a politician has dirty information. It is impossible to predict when new information will be released.

Once there is new information, Twitter's millions of users will forward it to each other non-stop.

Just the updates posted by big V bloggers on these matters need to be distributed to countless fans.

Not to mention that ordinary users @ each other, the amount of data interaction processed every minute is super amazing.

In this case, it is necessary to serve the hundreds of thousands of new users who are pouring in every day.

Therefore, anyone who sees such exaggerated operational pressure will faint.

Dick Costolo was also the first to answer questions. He was so anxious these days that he couldn't even sleep well.

Every time I open my eyes, I have to worry about whether the website will crash.

In fact, I have been woken up by nightmares of Twitter server crashes several times recently.

Seeing Jack and Biz urging each other, he could only resist the pressure and responded: "Don't worry, I promise to solve the Twitter website lag problem as soon as possible."

As a COO and a master of IT technology, he had to step up.

Because he led the technical team to overcome the problem of interactive processing of massive data at Twitter, he is fully responsible for this matter.

As long as Jack Dorsey approves the money, things will be easy.

It's nothing more than setting up more servers and bandwidth around the world. If you still can't keep up with the growth in demand, ask the CEO for more money.

The worst-case scenario is that all the $3000 million in financing will be spent, which would be a huge waste.

As for what to do when the money runs out, Dick Costolo isn't worried at all.

Not only is he not panicking, but the other three Twitter giants are not in a hurry either. Even the investors who invested in the last round are not nervous at all.

Because Twitter has gone completely crazy right now!

Seeing that the number of registered users has exceeded the 2500 million mark, the number of daily active users is also heading towards 500 million.

It is estimated that it will take less than a few months to catch up with the number of Facebook users.

Such a rapid user growth rate is unprecedented in the American venture capital circle. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is crazy.

At this moment, no website can hold down Twitter's edge.

Facebook, which has a first-mover advantage and has raised more than [-] million US dollars, cannot stop the rise of Blue Bird at this time.

Twitter is in a great situation now, so how can subsequent financing be a problem.

It’s just a question of how much money to raise in the next round. There will never be a situation where there is no money available. This is something that the Big Four of Twitter are very sure of.

At the thought of surpassing Facebook, everyone is looking forward to that day.
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