1108. The Twitter Effect
Unlike Facebook in later generations, Li Yifan pays more attention to this Twitter website.
The reason is the unique development experience of this kind of Twitter. On the other hand, it is because of the development model of this website, which has also had a long development experience in later generations.
Unlike Facebook, after Facebook was born, there were many websites in China that followed the trend, such as RenX.com or KaiX.com. The essence of these two websites is to develop from Facebook's development model.
However, because Chinese people have not developed their personality in the later stages due to education, and the domestic social moral habits also emphasize seeking common ground while reserving differences, and do not pay much attention to pursuing personality, so Facebook's development model has not become popular in China.
These two websites were popular for a while at the beginning of their creation, but then they soon declined.
But Twitter is different, especially when Chinese people like to chase stars and blindly worship their personality, when the domestic model of imitating Twitter and launching a carrier like Weibo in China.
With the addition of Internet big Vs, Weibo's communication model soon flourished in China, and later on, the country had to intervene in control.
Although the national crackdown has had a great impact on Weibo's model, it does not hinder the continued prosperity of this news carrier model.
This is a network development model that can span the Chinese and Western countries, so Li Yifan's attention to this network construction is higher than that of Facebook, which was very popular in later generations.
Another key issue is that the development history of Facebook is very different from the development history of Twitter.
You should know that after Facebook was tricked out by that Mark, it started from some campuses on the West Coast of the United States, and it was sought after by high-end and educated people.
Therefore, this website can easily attract the attention of the middle and upper classes of the United States, and also attract the interest of many investors.
Therefore, since its birth, this website has always been a hot spot in the eyes of many investors. There were countless companies planning to raise funds for this website, and even many companies planned to spend a lot of money to simply acquire this website.
So if you have the idea of making this website, then you should be careful of the emergence of competitors, especially before going public.
Because of the novel concept and the electronics sector in the US stock market, this company has just experienced the crazy situation of Google and Apple, and people, especially investors, have paid a lot of attention to this new type of online concept stock.
Therefore, this company has been popular with many American investors since its inception. It has been hotly speculated before it went public.
It is precisely because of the craze of many investors that the company has created the glory after its listing, but hot speculation is hot speculation. After this company went public, after experiencing the initial madness, it immediately fell into a situation where its stock price fell.
There was even a crisis at one point, and many people claimed that the company's stock was overestimated, but in fact it did not have much actual value.
Therefore, there was a crisis on Facebook, and it was not until later, because of the support of a large number of users, that ensured the status of the company.
As a latecomer, the competition between Twitter and Facebook has a taste of coming from behind.
Unlike Facebook, which focuses on popularization, Twitter focuses on the star route, which mainly relies on the driving and publicity of celebrities. Moreover, these stars come from different fields.
There are entertainment-based movie stars or singers, political stars, sports stars, or stars in the scientific community, and even many companies or government departments have opened their own Twitter.
The effect of such a leader is much stronger than that of Facebook. It is much stronger by promoting oneself and focusing on personality.
In the East, which does not promote extreme personalityism, the Twitter model seems more appropriate.
People prefer to pay more attention to their favorite celebrities or people who are outstanding in some aspects, rather than over-promoting them on the Internet or exposing themselves.
This is also the main reason why later generations in China, blogs based on Twitter were far more popular and sustainable than RenX.com or OpenX.com.
And it is precisely because the concept of Twitter was born early, but it has never been favored by investors. Even even when it was first listed in 2006, it did not attract much attention.
In the first two years of its birth, Twitter's financing path has been difficult.
It was not until a year after the website was built that they raised $1 million, and the company's total valuation was only $5 million. It was not until 2008 that they received their first financing of over 10 million, which also happened after O'Xi Hei used Twitter as his grassroots campaign, and relied on this weapon to help him win votes among the civilians and finally entered the White House.
In fact, it was O'Xiang Hei who successfully moved into the White House by relying on Twitter, which created the Twitter myth and played a crucial role in the future development of Twitter.
But before that, Twitter has always been an ugly duckling who doesn't attract attention.
It is precisely because no one noticed the importance of the Twitter website before that Li Yifan paid more attention to this website.
This website, which was once popular in later generations, has just been born, and even his original founder Jack has not yet had the idea of building this website software.
If I join now, it can accelerate the birth of this website. The most important thing is that Jack, the founder of Twitter, happens to be a poor man.
I can only give him a small part of the shares as a reward on the grounds of injecting funds, and I can become the big boss of this Twitter.
Even if he doesn't agree, he can kick him away and find someone else to develop this website. After all, these days, the philosophy is unable to register a patent.
What's more, Jack, even the Twitter concept has not yet been fully formed.
If he is smart, his best choice is to join the company we established, take a salary and a small part of the incentive shares to work for me, otherwise, he could bypass him and find someone to improve the Twitter concept.
Moreover, it is very different from the development of Twitter in his previous life. With the help of his own abundant funds and the influence of Heidi's rich overseas relations.
The road to becoming famous after Twitter appears in this life is definitely much smoother than in the previous life.
Maybe this Twitter will be born earlier than Facebook, and maybe it can rely on the model of appearing early, becoming popular early, and making profits early, and eventually taking over Facebook.
You should know that at the beginning of Facebook's earliest birth, the road was not particularly smooth. At the earliest, the founder of Facebook once wanted to sell Facebook to Google for 100 million, but in the end, the final transaction was not completed because of the huge differences between the two parties on the acquisition price.
But in this life, if you participate in the Internet competition in the United States, it will definitely be much more interesting. Maybe the United States will have a history of Internet development that is completely different from the previous life.
After Li Yifan explained what he knew about Twitter's business philosophy and this software model to Heidi, after listening to it, Heidi also felt that this idea is worth investing in.
You should know that after the birth of the Internet, its greatest role was to liberate many people from the original paper work, greatly improving the efficiency of work.
Another very important effect is to closely connect people. Originally, a person wanted to contact people in another corner of the world, and there was no other way besides making phone calls or writing letters.
However, with the emergence of the Internet, people can chat in real time through the Internet to notify the other party of the latest news they know every day, and can also communicate with each other videos and contact each other.
The Twitter concept is to connect the original ordinary people with the people they follow, and it is a real-time connection model.
For example, if you like a certain star, but before there is no such software website, you can only be a silent bystander. Perhaps when the star comes to the city where you live, you can choose to attend his concert or live press conference. Only in this way can you contact the star you are talking about to pay attention to and admire.
But now with this kind of software, if the celebrity you follow opens Twitter, you can post the latest situation he encounters on his Twitter in real time, and you follow it all the time, and you can also leave a message on his Twitter to interact with him. Do you think such a software is good enough for some fans who chase stars?
After those celebrities learned about such software, in order to maintain their fan base, would they say they would use it?
Moreover, this kind of software not only allows celebrities to interact with fans, it is even a star-making software.
If you are an ordinary person, you can find enough news or information worth paying attention to in yourself or by yourself, then your Twitter will attract the attention of many people, including ordinary people or those big Vs. In this way, you will naturally become a grassroots celebrity.
If one or two grassroots celebrities really come out, would other ordinary people be willing to use this kind of software?
Chapter completed!