The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 231: The Sucker of Million Dollars
In just a few minutes, Hopkinson saw that the popularity of his tweets skyrocketed.

The number of readings reached over 10 within one minute.

His number of followers was also increasing rapidly. In less than ten minutes, the number of followers exceeded one thousand.

His tweet also received a lot of likes and replies.

"That was such a wonderful time! Unfortunately, that time will never come back!"

"Damn squids! They are those greedy creatures who want to take away all our property!"

"Now, I feel that Amei is just an empty shell with a monster living inside it!"

"Guys, we are being robbed now! Those guys are trying to drive us out of our land! And we are powerless to resist!"

"I don't know what to say. I hope the situation can be improved as soon as possible. Our family is in a pessimistic and desperate situation! God, someone please save us!"

……

Hopkinson read through the messages one by one.

He was deeply touched.

He's just an ordinary person.

He never thought that he would end up like this today!
I have received a lot of responses on this platform. It seems that there are many people in Amei who have experienced the same thing as me.

Hopkinson spent the evening checking Twitter.

He simply couldn't stop.

After reading the tweets of several bloggers I follow, I responded to those who left me messages one by one.

Hopkinson looked through the information flow recommended by the platform on Twitter.

He saw a lot of content that interested him.

For example, he saw some bloggers who posted information about China’s humanities, history, geography, and current situation.

The content of those tweets was something he had almost never seen.

He has never been abroad.

Yes, he has lived for decades and has never had his own passport.

Even when he was at his most glorious, he always went on vacation to tourist destinations in the United States.

He believes that Aramco is the best country.

Why do I still want to travel?

Of course, he also wanted to visit Europe.

However, because he was a farmer and he had to take care of his land and livestock, he couldn't go far.

He gave up the idea of ​​traveling to Europe for vacation.

Hopkinson is actually the legendary redneck.

But that night, he saw a large number of pictures introducing the current situation in China.

Beautiful villages with small buildings, metropolises with tall buildings, majestic bridges and water conservancy projects...

Also, the Chinese people are dressed brightly and beautifully, and everyone has a smile on their face.

The country looked so beautiful and so rich.

Hopkinson was shocked: after all this time, he finally realized that China, which he had always thought was poor and backward, was so advanced and developed?

It seems that what I have seen in the traditional domestic media in the past were all selected by the squids for me to see.

Hopkinson felt sour inside.

His mentality is a little unbalanced.

He thought, after all this time, it turns out that the clown is actually me?

This is really absurd.

……

Teacher Ma was also very nervous that night.

He was very worried about whether Twitter would be popular after it went online.
After all, Ami already had Ser before.

His KK chat was also online at this time.

"Di Di-"

There is a flashing avatar in the lower right corner.

Teacher Ma looked and saw that the person talking to him was Li Yanhong.

Li Yanhong: "Within half an hour, more than three million Twitter users have flocked to the site."

"Congratulations, Twitter should be a success."

Mr. Ma replied: “With the help of advertising, millions of people flocked in. This is not surprising. The key is whether the users will stay.”

“I’m afraid we’ll have to wait and see the effect.”

Li Yanhong replied: "Of the more than 300 million users who entered the platform, percent registered Twitter accounts, and then they all stayed and started reading the news feeds on it."

“More and more people are constantly pouring in.”

"I think Twitter will be able to defeat Ser in the shortest possible time."

"Teacher Ma should have some confidence!"

"I'm not saying that the level of Serna software is not on the same level as Twitter. It's very bad. There's nothing valuable about it except all kinds of women selling their bodies."

“Also, its recommendation algorithm is not very good.”

"I dare say it has already lost the competition!"

Teacher Ma took a breath and decided to take a look at the backstage himself.

He is not a professional technician, so even if he looks at the backend, he can't see much real data.

“Hopefully we can become a big hit.”

"I really don't want to disappoint my boss's expectations of me."

Teacher Ma took a look at the data background himself.

The number of people online has risen to more than 700 million.

The number of registered users has reached 10 million.

93.72 new tweets were added.

The interactive likes exceeded 7 million...

When Teacher Ma looked at these data, his heart beat even faster.

Teacher Ma thought, it seems that what Li Yanhong said is right.

It has just been launched and there are more than 700 million people online at the same time, which is a huge success.

From this we can see that the influence of KK chat is really great!

too big.

It was not until after midnight that Teacher Ma reluctantly decided to go to sleep.

从晚上7点40上线，到12点30多，将近5个小时的时间，推特的注册用户已经是突破了2千万。

When he went to bed, there were still more than one million people online on Twitter.

Of course, as more and more people came in, some weird people also came online.

After these people came online, they started posting some borderline stuff.

This is to attract users and then achieve their ulterior motives.

Teacher Ma thought that if these things happened in China, they would never exist.

But here! Just let it be!

……

Twitter's launch was sudden.

Suddenly, Yahoo's boss Yang Zhiyuan didn't get any news at all.

He is still smug about himself.

Because, under his leadership, Yahoo wrote Ser, a software that learned from Weibo.

Although Yahoo has many talented programmers, the performance of the Ser software can only be considered mediocre.

Because they cannot obtain the secrets of Weibo's core algorithms and architecture.

You can only copy one by analogy.

After they finished it, Yang Zhiyuan took a look at the software and was a little dissatisfied.

Because this software is obviously not as easy to use as Weibo!

However, in order to save time and go online as soon as possible to attract more users, Yang Zhiyuan was optimistic and thought, just go online and develop users first.

While developing users, we will improve the software.

There's nothing wrong with that.

After Ser went online, it developed rapidly under the strong promotion of Yahoo.

It has only been online for 4 months, but its number of users has already reached more than 5 million.

This is a remarkable achievement.

Of course, compared with chatting with KK, it’s not good enough.

Yang Zhiyuan originally thought: This is a good start for me. Next, as long as the recommendation mechanism and recommendation algorithm are fixed, and as more and more interesting bloggers continue to output excellent content, Ser will surely continue to grow and develop.

He has even come up with a plan to expand rapidly globally.

That’s right, he wants to compete with Weibo for users.

Now is the time when he is full of confidence.

However, that evening, he suddenly received a piece of news: a software called Twitter, similar to WhatsApp and Weibo, would be launched soon.

Yang Zhiyuan didn't take it seriously at first.

He thought to himself, there had been several similar softwares before, but weren’t they all defeated by me in the end?

That night, after Yang Zhiyuan finished his work, he logged into Twitter to see what kind of person this new opponent was.

After logging in, he browsed through the various functions of the software and compared them with his own colors.

He thinks the design of this software is also very good.

The various sections are very reasonable.

The information flow push method is also adopted.

Although it is a new software, it has powerful functions and rich content. After Yang Zhiyuan read the functions of Twitter, he began to browse the content.

After taking a look, he found that this software was quite amazing. Its information was updated very quickly, and it could keep up with hot topics. Many people expressed their opinions on a certain hot news at the same time.

Moreover, the bloggers here are very topical and can attract users' resonance and participation.

After reading this, Yang Zhiyuan's expression became solemn.

He thought to himself, this platform seems pretty good!

He then used some technical means to look at the data on the number of people online on Twitter.

He became increasingly restless.

After all, this product has only been online for less than 3 hours, and now, Twitter’s registered users have reached nearly million?
Moreover, they are very active in posting, commenting on posts, liking posts, and interacting.

In fact, this is better than the interactive activity of his Ser!

Yang Zhiyuan frowned and thought, what the hell, what is going on?

This is really fucking special, right?

My performance had just started to improve, but now I've encountered such a strong opponent!

Simply incredible!

Yang Zhiyuan immediately ordered his subordinates to investigate the origins of this Twitter company.

After the investigation, the subordinates came to report the next day.

The information obtained by Yang Zhiyuan showed that Twitter was still a company founded by Chinese people.

The person in charge of this Twitter is Jack Ma.

However, it is obvious that Jack Ma is just a professional manager and definitely not a boss.

After further investigation, I found that Twitter is actually a special version of Amei's Weibo!
Yang Zhiyuan felt a little bitter.

He originally wanted to take advantage of the gap before Weibo entered Amei to develop his own similar products.

But now it seems that the Chinese have not given up on the Aramco market!
They have already launched their own products on Amei, and they have come on line with such force that they are determined to crush their own products.

Yang Zhiyuan didn't sleep well that night.

He had nightmares all night.

The next morning, he got up and checked the current situation on Twitter again.

Seeing this, he felt chilled again.

Because Twitter has nearly 30 million registered users.

Early in the morning, there were more than 600,000 people online browsing or posting.

And what about Ser?

There are only more than 20,000 people online at this point.

The number of people online on Twitter is dozens of times that of Ser!
This fully illustrates one thing: Twitter's user stickiness is too high.

It has only been online for less than a day, but it has completely surpassed Ser.

If the current situation continues to develop in the long run, then Ser will not be worth mentioning.

It is destined to be suppressed, and eventually become half-dead, lose money, and have to close down.

Yang Zhiyuan was very depressed.

Since he founded Yahoo, everything has been going smoothly for him in the beginning!
It’s better now!

Damn, I suffered two major blows in succession.

The first hit was KK Chat.

After KK Chat was launched, it quickly became the largest instant social communication software in America, directly squeezing out Yahoo's chat room to the point where it almost lost its popularity.

The second blow was Twitter.

At that moment, Yang Zhiyuan felt a sense of sadness, thinking that if there is Yu, why is there Liang?

He thought, I can't just sit there and wait for death, I have to fight back!
In the Internet sector, there is basically no coexistence, and it is basically a winner-takes-all situation.

The second child won’t have much chance of survival.

Because it is impossible for most people to use two social information distribution platforms at the same time.

Yang Zhiyuan decided to increase the promotion of Ser.

Fight for people's attention.

What he did was to find Li Yanhong, the CEO of KK Chat.

He hopes to cooperate with Li Yanhong to promote Ser through KK chat.

He believes that the reason why Twitter was able to surpass its own company, Ser, in such a short period of time was purely because Twitter chose KK Chat to promote its products.

KK Chat, as the entrance with the largest traffic, has also brought a large number of users to Twitter.

Yang Zhiyuan believes that his biggest mistake was that he chose his own Yahoo platform to promote Ser when it was first launched.

Yahoo's traffic is still relatively large.

However, compared with chatting with KK, it is actually not good enough.

Yang Zhiyuan went to discuss promotion cooperation with Li Yanhong in person.

He expressed his hope to run pop-up promotional ads in KK chat for three consecutive days.

And I hope to open a link button on KK chat, so that after clicking it, I can immediately enter Ser.

Li Yanhong didn't expect that Yang Zhiyuan would be so determined to cooperate with him.

He immediately quoted a very expensive price: in order to get such a large-scale promotion, Ser would need to pay 100 million dollars.

Yang Zhiyuan was very shocked because the cost of this promotion was a bit too much.

This is something he cannot bear.

The two sides talked for several hours but ultimately failed to reach an agreement.

All we can do is go back and think about it again.

After Yang Zhiyuan left, Li Yanhong immediately contacted people in China and told them that Yang Zhiyuan wanted to cooperate with KK Chat to promote his own Ser information distribution platform.

After listening to this, Zhang Zhipeng did not hesitate. He told Li Yanhong: We can cooperate on this matter! As long as Yang Zhiyuan is willing to pay a high price, we can cooperate.

Li Yanhong hesitated for a moment and said to Zhang Zhipeng: "But, Comrade Zhipeng, will this affect our own Twitter?"

Zhang Zhipeng said: "I took a look at the Ser app. Its platform imitates the appearance of Weibo, but it is still unable to master the internal algorithms and recommendation mechanisms."

"In this case, it is simply no match for Twitter."

“Even if you promote it heavily, it won’t be able to steal users from Twitter!”

“We don’t have to worry about competition!”

“Competition leads to better development!”

"We don't earn their promotion fees, they will go directly to Google."

"So, we must collect this money!"

Li Yanhong got Zhang Zhipeng's authorization, and he finally felt at ease.

As for Yang Zhiyuan, after he returned, he began to discuss with the board of directors.

That’s right, he actually hopes to have a chat with KK and carry out in-depth cooperation.

However, $100 million in advertising costs is still too expensive.

He has no say in the matter.

He needs to report to the board of directors and obtain authorization from the board of directors before he can do so.

When Yahoo was first founded, it also received investments from many bigwigs on Huaer Street.

After Yahoo went public, its controlling power was no longer in the hands of Yang Zhiyuan, but in the hands of the big boss of Huaer Street.

In fact, Yang Zhiyuan himself does not hold much shares.

After all, his current situation is just that of a high-level worker.

After Yang Zhiyuan communicated with the board of directors, all board members felt that Twitter was indeed a huge threat to Serl's product.

If this threat cannot be suppressed, then Ser should forget about becoming an information distribution platform with a monopoly position in Ami.

If you can't have a monopoly, you can't have excess profits.

Therefore, while Twitter has just been launched, we should take a gamble and try to attract a large number of users to the Ser platform through large-scale publicity and promotion.

Success or failure depends on this one move!

If it fails to succeed quickly in the competition, then Ser may fail.

Yang Zhiyuan felt more confident after getting authorization from the board of directors.

So he went to find Li Yanhong again.

When Li Yanhong saw Yang Zhiyuan coming over again, he knew that the other party must have obtained authorization from the Yahoo board of directors.

Yang Zhiyuan said to Li Yanhong: "Mr. Li, we are all descendants of Yan and Huang. I think we should help each other."

"What have you thought about? Thirty million dollars should be acceptable, right?"

Li Yanhong shook his head and said with a smile: "I'm afraid not!"

"Mr. Yang, I must tell you that 100 million dollars is already a very favorable price."

"If you can't accept it, I'm afraid we won't be able to cooperate this time."

"Well! I must also tell you that we at KK Chat will only allow you to install the hyperlink on your panel for three months at most."

Yang Zhiyuan thought, in fact, he didn't need three months of hyperlink at all, just one month would be enough.

Within a month, all the users that could be attracted came.

Yang Zhiyuan rolled his eyes and said, "What if we only ask you to help us display the hyperlink on the KK chat panel for one month?"

"Can you give us a better deal? How about 5 million?"

Li Yanhong shook his head and said, "That's definitely not possible!"

"Whether it's one month or three months, you have to pay $100 million, no less."

Yang Zhiyuan bargained with Li Yanhong for a long time, but in the end he couldn't get any discount.

There was no other choice but to sign a 100 million dollar promotion agreement with Li Yanhong.

After hearing about this, Mr. Ma felt calm and there was no disturbance.

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