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Chapter 1094

"My father works in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and he hasn't come home since he went to work three days ago. My mother, I and the whole family are all waiting for his return!
We'll be waiting forever! "

It was the first message to appear on Twitter, tweeted by New York user Susan.

At this juncture in America, holding any product launch event will not attract the attention of the outside world, and ICQ did not carry out a big publicity, but "quietly" launched Twitter.

It is said to be "quietly", but the ICQ company did not say it out. In fact, Twitter's online promotion efforts are not small at all.

ICQ used the pop-up function twice that day, which was the first time in the history of ICQ. The first pop-up was naturally to mourn and pray for the victims of the World Trade Center in New York. After ICQ, other Internet platforms followed suit.

And at night, ICQ used the pop-up function again to push the pop-up window to over [-] million computer version users around the world. This time, the above tweet message appeared, and instead of directly promoting Twitter, it promoted Susan’s that tweet.

The second ICQ pop-up window seems to be praying for the victims of the World Trade Center in New York. It seems to have nothing to do with Twitter, but after this pop-up window, Susan’s search volume on the Google search engine is just 10 minutes. Breaking one million times, followed by the word Twitter, which was searched 58 times within a few minutes.

And after this ICQ pop-up, the number of Twitter registrations began to explode, and countless tweets related to the survivors and victims of the World Trade Center in New York appeared on it.

In particular, ICNC TV station opened a Twitter account to update the rescue situation at the World Trade Center in New York in real time on Twitter, and uploaded a report on New York Governor Pataki, the boss of the Federal Department of Justice, and a member of the new President’s Security Advisory Committee. After the interview about this matter, this new platform for real-time transmission of information quickly attracted the attention of countless users.

Compared with traditional media TV stations, newspapers, and even emerging portal websites on the Internet, news needs to be edited and reviewed before it can be sent out for users to see. Compared with Twitter, a platform that sends messages almost at any time, the timeliness is simply inferior. Dimensionality reduction strike!
When the three major television stations, ICNC, CNN, and NBC America, all opened Twitter accounts and began broadcasting news related to the Twin Towers in New York in real time, in just one or two days, they almost dominated the news related to this matter. After harvesting huge traffic and users, other major TV stations, newspapers, and media also began to enter the Twitter platform belatedly.

The incident at the World Trade Center in New York made Russell, a congressman with tough and fierce rhetoric, a representative of the hardliners on Capitol Hill. His remarks on Twitter earned him the attention of millions of users.

After Russell was jointly interviewed by ICNC, NBC, CNN, CW TV Network, Time Magazine and other media, for a while, Russell's limelight was almost no worse than that of the Grand Commander and the Federal Defense Boss!
Russell relied on Twitter to express his remarks, which were commented and reposted by countless users who followed him, and his remarks were reported by a large number of media, and even the commander-in-chief and the federal defense agency had to respond, so that countless people who cared about him saw Twitter potential role.

In the past, the role of voters was only reflected in elections, but now, as long as there are enough supporters on Twitter, it seems that there are alternative votes!

For a while, Twitter did not do public relations, but various congressmen, including the commander in chief, congressmen on Capitol Hill, and the bosses of the federal states, all opened their own Twitter accounts and posted passionate remarks on it.

Twitter seemed to pop up overnight, but like wildfire, with the help of the World Trade Center incident in New York, it spread like crazy throughout America!

There is no advertisement on traditional TV stations, newspapers and other platforms, but in the Internet camp on Song Yang’s side, this time it is for Twitter, ICQ community, Xueleshan game platform, Google search, Feita antivirus, PayPal, Wikipedia, Symbian App Store, Hotmail, AOL Portal, Firefox mobile browser, etc. Today, Internet users, mainly using Internet platforms, all have Twitter advertisements appearing overwhelmingly.

"Yes, the FBI has found enough evidence that the incident at the World Trade Center in New York was done by supporters of the Tahir Kingdom. I believe that the commander-in-chief and the Federation will respond soon!"

On the TV station, it was still the incident of the World Trade Center in New York, and the whole of America was also centered on this incident. Before the disaster relief of the World Trade Center was over, several major federal investigative agencies came together and locked the target of the upcoming war. Maozi is the same as back then, and now America is still focusing on the imperial cemetery.

The support rate of the Little Cowboy has begun to break through the sky. According to the latest voter survey, the support of the Little Cowboy has almost exceeded 90%. OK.

The minds of all walks of life in America, even Wall Street and Silicon Valley, are all focused on the World Trade Center in New York at this time, until the latest issue of "Wired Magazine" suddenly released a big thunder, "Twitter has been online for a week, The number of user registrations has exceeded 400 million!"

Because of the World Trade Center incident in New York, the Internet industry, whose stock prices have plummeted, especially giant companies such as Yahoo and Microsoft, seems to have been hit by another sap at this time, and their minds are in a daze. Isn't everyone paying attention to New York now? What the hell is it, and where did it come from? !

The report of Wired magazine caused an uproar in the entire technology industry. In the past few days, it seemed that this new Internet software had been seen, but the entire technology industry did not pay much attention to it. They were all panicking, America Is it going to usher in another quagmire battle, where would you be scruples about a "small" platform that pops up.

But at this time, I saw that Twitter had taken away more than 2000 million users in just one week after its launch, making the Internet and the entire technology industry a little bit unbearable. Turn your attention back to the technology industry.

"We can say that Twitter's performance this week may have been an accident, and the World Trade Center incident gave Twitter an unimaginable chain of transmission.

However, as the latest social platform under ICQ, Twitter has a new social platform that is different from instant messaging and portal websites. It is somewhat similar to blogs, but it is completely different. Users will exceed 4000 million.

No matter what, ICQ will own another phenomenal social platform, and ICQ's dominance as the social king may not be challenged in a short period of time! "

An analyst from a Wall Street institution released an analysis on Twitter. Although he is optimistic, he is also very cautious. He believes that Twitter has enjoyed this wave of dividends. With the help of the World Trade Center incident in New York, it can expand to such a degree in a short period of time. When the influence of the incident disappears in the future, no one can tell how far Twitter will go.

Another analyst, Justin Si, looked directly at Twitter, "Is this a new product from Bruno Song?
Sorry, maybe the richest man, you can invest more in the stocks of other Internet companies. Twitter is the most stupid idea I have ever seen. Who would put their information on the Internet for the whole world to browse and comment unscrupulously? ,? ! "

When the Internet and the technology industry set their sights on Twitter, the comments on Twitter are mixed, with supporters and opponents, but the stock price of ICQ has begun to rise again.

"So what's the deal with this product?!"

At the Yahoo headquarters, President Semel asked various executives with some annoyance, and the founder Yang Zhiyuan was also among them for his views on Twitter.

The emergence of Twitter caught Yahoo by surprise. Yahoo Messenger, the instant messaging software owned by Yahoo, is still struggling. It wants to steal a part of the market share from ICQ and try to survive. out.

Before becoming the president of Yahoo, Semel had heard rumors that his predecessor Coorg was powerless in the face of ICQ. ICQ debuted later than Yahoo. As a result, ICQ’s market value later slammed Yahoo.

And now, Semel also felt the helplessness released by Coorg. ICQ and that man were like a mountain, pressing on Yahoo's head, so that Yahoo couldn't think of overthrowing this mountain at all.

Now, another problem lies in front of Yahoo, whether to follow up and launch a product similar to Twitter to compete in the ring.

"A third-party data survey agency shows that Twitter added more users yesterday, exceeding 310 million again!

The commander-in-chief and his wife expressed their support to the families of the victims of the World Trade Center incident on Twitter!
Some Twitter users held temporary gatherings through Twitter. Leonardo, Brad Pitt, Michael Jackson, NBA star Jordan, etc. all opened their own Twitter accounts, and they attracted a large number of new users , into Twitter! "

The president of Yahoo's marketing department said in a muffled voice that no matter what Silicon Valley and Wall Street say about Twitter, Twitter is raging like wildfire in America.

American congressmen, Hollywood stars, sports stars, and celebrities from all walks of life have all started to enter Twitter slowly, and through Twitter, temporary gatherings are held, which also shows that the current Twitter is completely different from ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, and Microsoft MSN And other products, it can connect users together offline, this is not the kind of virtual weak connection, but a strong connection that breaks through the limitations of the Internet!

"Even if Yahoo makes a Twitter, it may not be able to have the powerful people in charge, let alone Western Films and Bruno Yankee Sports Company, so many Hollywood stars and sports stars are on the Twitter platform!"

The president of Yahoo's development department also replied coldly, Twitter has taken up all the time, and it has the support of Western Films and Bruno Yankee Sports Company. With these two, Hollywood stars, sports industry players Whether it is a superstar, who would dare not accept Twitter's invitation, unless they don't want to have a meal.

After repeated defeats and repeated battles, Yahoo began to lose the desire to compete with ICQ. Even if they saw Twitter, like the wind, sweeping the entire American market, Yahoo also felt a little unconfident. ICQ contention or something.

On the contrary, those emerging Internet technology companies are not afraid of tigers, and dare to fight with ICQ. After all, barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes. They have nothing. If they lose, they will not lose money. !
Yang Zhiyuan, who was sitting on the side, watched all this silently, no matter how quarreled in the Yahoo meeting room, he did not say a word.

Yahoo is still very "young", but it has a sense of twilight. The original founder team members have long since left. The current management of Yahoo is completely managed by Wall Street professional managers. The stock price and market value target only care about the stock price. As for the rest of Yahoo, Wall Street doesn't care at all.

Yahoo doesn't even have a goal, so how can it be expected to beat other competitors? If it wants to be a "Twitter" now, it only cares about the stock price, that's all!

As for Yang Zhiyuan, the board of directors composed of Wall Street institutions didn't care about the suggestions for Yahoo, and the launch of new products. They just regarded Yang Zhiyuan as a mascot that could boost the stock price...

"Yahoo must have its own Twitter product anyway!"

After arguing for a while, Semel still decided to follow up on Twitter's project, whether he won or not, at least he had to catch up.

"Twitter once again set a new record. It has been online for 500 days and has more than [-] million Twitter users!"

"Twitter opened the English-speaking region market, and England swept 107 million users on the first day!"

"The leader of Canada sent Canada's first tweet. Twitter hit 54 registered users in a single day in Canada, becoming the most popular Internet social platform in Canadian history!"

"Twitter entered the Western European market for three days, and the seven Western European countries contributed over 580 million users to Twitter!"

"A source revealed that European trade is considering conducting an anti-monopoly investigation on ICQ Group, believing that it already has control over the Internet social field..."

"Yeadex Group, Nippon Softbank and other groups have obtained the agency rights of Twitter, and Twitter will land in the Nordic, Asian and other markets!"

"Oprah, Allen and many other talk show actors have joined Twitter, and CNN TV station has acquired the Twitter CNN account for 1500 million US dollars, and the commercialization of Twitter has officially started!"

"Twitter is expected to exceed the [-] million user mark this year, becoming the second largest Internet social platform in the history of Internet social networking!"

The Wall Street analyst Justins predicted that Twitter would soon be abandoned by users, but it did not happen. On the contrary, Twitter not only performed like fire and water in America, but also entered overseas markets, and it was even more expressive. Many powerful figures and celebrities are vying to enter the Twitter platform to circle leeks.

　Sorry for the late update
　
(End of this chapter)