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

Chapter 232 Just do it and it’s over
Because, in the few days since Twitter went online, it already has more than 7 million users.

What does 7 million mean? It is almost the second largest Internet company in the United States.

The first is KK chat.

Even Yahoo doesn't have that many users.

After observation, Mr. Ma has already realized that Twitter, as a platform, can always recommend the latest information to users because of its excellent algorithm mechanism and underlying architecture. If users want to know about a hot event, they only need to search for related topics on Twitter, and they will quickly be able to understand the ins and outs of the matter, the opinions of all parties, and the follow-up.

This is much more powerful than traditional media like the New York Times and CNN.

Moreover, the platform's recommendation mechanism is very good, and it can recommend information and bloggers that users like to read to them.

This will make users dependent.

In contrast, the recommendation algorithm of the Ser platform is relatively poor and its architecture is not stable enough.

In short, the feeling given to users is extremely bad.

How can such a platform compete with Twitter?

Even if Ser promotes itself vigorously on KK Chat, it will not be possible to expand its user base quickly.

Even if users click on the Ser platform, they may not stay after experiencing and comparing.

Teacher Ma has also received the notification from Li Yanhong.

The two of them had a special discussion about this, and after the discussion, they agreed that Yahoo's 100 million dollars would most likely be wasted.

But, if this money comes to your door, you must take it!
KK Chat has now become the largest Internet company platform in the United States.

Maintaining and building this platform requires a lot of money!

We must continuously increase revenue before we can make this platform develop better.

So, making money is really not shameful.

After Yang Zhiyuan reached an agreement with Li Yanhong, he went back and immediately found a specialized design and planning company to come up with a plan.

This plan must find the selling point of Ser.

It has to be more attractive than Twitter.

But after discussing with the people from the planning company for a long time, everyone still believed that Twitter's advertising promotion strategy should be the most attractive.

The people from the planning company suggested to Yang Zhiyuan: He should dig out those influential bloggers on Twitter as soon as possible, give them enough benefits, and let them open accounts on Ser.

This work should be done immediately.

The promotional theme was also inspired by Twitter.

"Here, you are the master of the topic. Even an ordinary person can have millions of fans and become an elite who can call the shots!"

The theme of this promotion is also very attractive.

Afterwards, Yang Zhiyuan asked people to start digging out the big Vs on Twitter.

As long as there are big Vs with more than 5 fans, we must visit them all.

Then, they have to be invited for a fee.

As long as they open an account on Ser, they can earn between $100 and $.

As long as they post 10 blog posts on the Ser platform every day, they can earn at least $500 per month. If they are a million-dollar influencer, they can earn $5000 per month.

Although this income is not much, it is still very attractive to ordinary people.

If there is money to be made, those big names who post on Twitter will naturally flock to it.

Then, Yang Zhiyuan also stipulated that if a million-dollar celebrity on Twitter could switch to Ser and no longer stay on Twitter, he or she could receive at least $10,000 in compensation.

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Hopkinson has been in high spirits in recent days.

He is almost 50 years old, and has never had the highlight moment he has today.

In less than a week, his number of followers on Twitter has skyrocketed to over one million.

With so many fans, he found the joy of being an opinion leader.

Every post he posts every day will spark heated discussions, and many people will like and forward it.

The comments on each of his tweets can easily reach hundreds or thousands.

He also formed his own fan group, in which every word he said would be echoed and agreed by everyone.

It's such a great feeling.

Most importantly, Hopkinson can still make a profit.

With his background, the income he earns is skyrocketing every day.

On the most profitable day, he could earn nearly a thousand dollars.

This is much more profitable than farming.

Moreover, with so many supporters, he is now dreaming of running for parliament.

In their area, if one could be elected as a state legislator, one would be able to join the group of powerful elites.

This can bring him huge benefits.

Just at this time, an uninvited guest came to Hopkinson's house.

This person claimed that he was from Yahoo and came here to invite Hopkinson to join the Ser platform.

As long as Hopkinson joins the Ser platform, he can get $10,000.

Moreover, he can also receive strong promotion from the platform, making him a big V on the Ser platform.

If Hopkinson is willing to switch to Ser and give up his development on Twitter, he can still receive at least $1 in subsidies per month on the Ser platform in the future.

After hearing what the other party said, Hopkinson refused without hesitation.

It’s not like he hasn’t been to Ser Platform.

The atmosphere there was not very good and he didn't like it.

What's more, I am now very influential on Twitter and can earn at least three or four hundred dollars a day!

A simple calculation shows that he can earn 10,000 to 20,000 dollars a month.

In this case, why should he develop on the Ser platform?

Of course, if Hopkinson is not asked to leave Twitter and can be given the same benefits, he might consider it.

The person responsible for persuading Hopkinson tried in vain and could only leave in disappointment.

Go back and tell Yang Zhiyuan about it.

Yang Zhiyuan was also a little helpless.

There was no other way, he could only settle for the next best thing. As long as a big V like Hopkinson could open an account on the Ser platform at the same time and move the content he posted on Twitter to the Ser platform, he could get a compensation of two thousand dollars every month.

But after considering it, Hopkinson refused.

First, the money is not enough.

Secondly, Hopkinson’s consideration is: If he opens an account on the Ser platform for that little benefit, what if Twitter disagrees?
I can't ruin the current good situation.

Yang Zhiyuan planned carefully and spent a lot of money, but in the end he failed to attract any influential big V from Twitter.

This made him extremely disappointed.

However, it was too late. Yang Zhiyuan could only bite the bullet and start promoting the app on KK Chat.

For three consecutive days, KK chat had pop-up promotions.

There is an additional hyperlink to Ser in a prominent position on the KK chat panel. Click it to enter the Ser platform. At the same time, you can also post and interact on this platform immediately as a KK chat user.

Naturally, KK Chat users immediately noticed this promotion.

A large number of KK chat users clicked in to try it out.

But, unfortunately, after these people went in and experienced it, they found that this KK chat, apart from a lot of erotic stuff, did not have any valuable content worth lingering on.

There is actually quite a lot of pornographic content on Twitter as well.

At the same time, it seems that it is more convenient and faster to interact with these things on Twitter.

Because you can create fan groups on Twitter and have private chats.

There is no such function on Ser.

This means that the user experience of Ser is definitely not as good as that of Twitter.

On the first day that Ser was promoted on KK Chat, more than 17 million people flocked to it within one day.

Unfortunately, out of the more than 17 million people, only less than 100,000 remained.

This retention rate is really too low.

The next day, less than 10 million people flocked to the Ser platform through KK chat, only more than 7 million. Similarly, only more than 30,000 people stayed.

When Yang Zhiyuan saw this scene, his heart sank.

He never dreamed that after spending 100 million, the result would be so bad?

Wouldn’t that mean the 100 million is just wasted?

What went wrong?
Why was Twitter able to become so popular overnight by doing pop-up promotions on KK chats, adding more than 20 million users a day?
But what about the Ser platform?

What went wrong?

Yang Zhiyuan was very depressed.

He was a little unwilling.

On the third day, the number of people attracted from KK chat was even smaller, only two to three million.

There were still only a few cats, big and small, left.

With this effect, it definitely won’t work.

Yang Zhiyuan was also severely criticized by Yahoo's board of directors for this.

The directors asked one after another: What is going on?

Why did I spend so much money, only to end up with this result?
This is really unacceptable.

Yang Zhiyuan finally realized the biggest mistake he had made: the software of Ser Platform was really mediocre.

The gap in the underlying algorithms and architecture as well as the serious lack of functionality made Ser a failed product.

I was too impatient after all. The result of my hasty launch of the Ser platform was that when I encountered a strong competitor, my platform would be immediately defeated.

While Ser is trying hard to save itself, Twitter is still growing by leaps and bounds.

In just over ten days, the number of users of this software exceeded 100 million.

As the number of users increased, advertisers also came one after another, and large companies chose to start advertising on Twitter.

This made Twitter's profits very good from the beginning.

Twitter has been successful in a very short period of time.

Just like KK chat went smoothly.

Teacher Ma was very happy when facing this situation.

If he had experienced a major setback before joining Penguin Chat, he would have thought that he would never recover and would live his life as a loser.

Now, Twitter, which he operates personally, has been a huge success, making him confident again.

Just at this moment, a woman in a suit and tie wearing luxury brand clothes came to visit Teacher Ma.

This woman is called Alice

According to Alice's own introduction, she is the assistant to the CEO of the Flower Street Morgan Consortium.

She came here this time to discuss cooperation with Teacher Ma.

When Mr. Ma heard that the other party was from the Huaer Street Morgan Consortium and was the assistant to the consortium's CEO, he couldn't help but respect him.

You know, Morgan is the top consortium in America, very awesome!
In the past, Teacher Ma was quite worshipful and superstitious about Amei.

He was also quite envious of the big conglomerates in Amei.

He had fantasized countless times that he would also have the opportunity to build such a giant in China.

Unfortunately, he is still just a small figure.

Of course, after being beaten by reality and accepting Zhang Zhipeng's teachings, Jack Ma's original good impression of Amei has almost disappeared.

Teacher Ma welcomed Alice warmly.

He knew that Alice came here to discuss investment.

The financial tycoons in Huaer Street have basically all smelled the scent of getting rich, just like sharks smelling blood, they will never give up until they achieve their goal.

Li Yanhong has told Teacher Ma this many times.

Teacher Ma was naturally mentally prepared.

It is impossible for Twitter to accept investment from a large consortium.

Because these consortiums are greedy.

Even Twitter may not be able to be listed on Aramco in the future.

A private company is not listed.

If it goes public, we won’t have any control over it.

After the greetings, Alice got straight to the point and asked if it was possible to invest $10 billion in Twitter.

She said that Twitter is a very good platform and should be promoted and developed globally immediately.

If you want to expand your business globally quickly, you will need a lot of financing.

And she came here to bring warmth on behalf of Wall Street.

When Mr. Ma heard the investment amount, his heart started beating wildly.

This investment is quite large.

Just ask for a billion dollars!

He is indeed one of the world's top chaebol giants.

Teacher Ma naturally knew Zhang Zhipeng's attitude. If he could avoid accepting the financing, he would not accept it at all.

At the same time, Twitter is not short of money.

Under such circumstances, Mr. Ma of course immediately declined politely: "Ms. Alice, I'm really sorry, we are not short of funds."

"At the same time, we have no plans to expand globally for the time being."

Alice listened, smiled faintly and said: "Mr. Ma, you should understand that in Amei, a new Internet platform without a background will encounter various problems."

“If you don’t share the benefits, then you risk being targeted.”

Obviously, this is a threat to Jack Ma.

Jack Ma smiled faintly and said, "Miss Alice, I'm afraid this is not a good idea, right?"

"Besides, who told you that I don't have a backer?"

"My backer is one of the most powerful forces in the world."

"If you don't want to get into trouble, then I advise you not to get yourself into trouble, hahaha!"

Jack Ma knew that he could not show weakness at this time.

If you show weakness, the opponent will pounce on you like a hungry wolf.

There will probably be more trouble in the future.

Alice blinked and said, "I know that you are a company invested by China."

Jack Ma smiled and said, "It would be best if you knew."

"Everyone should be peaceful and friendly and not trip each other up."

“Only in this way can we coexist harmoniously.”

Alice said, "Mr. Ma, we don't mean anything else, we just want to help you and your business."

"After all, you know, the Aramco market is not as free as you think."

Jack Ma said seriously, "Really? What do you mean by that?"

"Are you trying to say that your country's market is not free?"

"But from what I understand, you have always claimed to be the freest, fairest and most open market economy country."

"You don't want to force us to do anything, do you?"

Alice: "..."

She found that the other party didn't seem to be intimidated by her at all.

Morgan also has huge interests in China.

They really don't dare to tear off the disguise of a free and open market.

Alice shrugged and said, "Okay, Mr. Ma, since you are not interested in cooperating, let's stop talking here today."

She left angrily.

Only after Alice left did Jack Ma breathe a sigh of relief.

He was actually very nervous just now.

He naturally knew that Morgan was a giant and almost controlled the economic lifeline of Amy.

There is almost no business in Aramco that Morgan has not had a hand in.

Jack Ma thought, after rejecting Morgan, would it start doing all kinds of outrageous things next time?
He went to find Li Yanhong.

After listening to Jack Ma's story, Li Yanhong smiled and said, "You will encounter more similar things in the future."

“You may even receive quite a few purchase invitations.”

"Don't worry about it."

"In the short term, the safety of our company should not be a problem."

"According to the boss's arrangement, whether it's KK Chat or Twitter, they are all products of a historical stage."

“It’s all built for a purpose.”

"Yes! The purpose is to seize the leading position in public opinion!"

"We'll take it one step at a time! Until their painted skins can no longer cover them up, until their inner demonic nature is revealed."

Jack Ma nodded and said with a bit of regret: "Twitter is developing so well, it has the potential to grow into a super enterprise!"

“It would be a shame if it was destroyed.”

Li Yanhong smiled and said: "It's nothing, as long as we complete our historical mission, that's enough!"

Li Yanhong tried his best to imitate Zhang Zhipeng's tone and movements when speaking.

He really admires Zhang Zhipeng.

Jack Ma nodded and said, "After talking with you today, I have completely calmed down."

Li Yanhong said: "I didn't understand why we had to launch another Twitter app at first."

"But now I understand that Twitter really plays a big role."

"It fully exerts the role of cultural output and public opinion competition in all aspects."

Jack Ma smiled bitterly: "I wonder if this is a bit too radical?"

"Doing things so radically will easily arouse the vigilance of the Angyu Group."

Li Yanhong said: "We are doing everything according to their laws."

"We are just enlightening the people!"

"So what if they're on guard. It's fine."

"Now, no matter what, we have strong backing behind us. Just do it!"

Twitter's development speed is extremely rapid. By September 1999, its number of registered users had exceeded 9 million.

Of course, by this time, it had already begun to spread to Europe, America and other countries. Its influence was also growing.

While Twitter was developing rapidly in the United States and other Western countries, Zhang Zhipeng was busy helping the country develop large aircraft.

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