Seeing Wang Xing's somewhat excited expression, Su Wang nodded in agreement, but there was emotion in his heart.
When Wang Xing asked this question, he was a little hesitant in his heart. He hesitated whether to tell Wang Xing the truth. After all, Sina Weibo had not yet appeared at this time. If he took the lead, he could capture the huge market of Weibo.
of.
In the end, the reason why Su Wang decided to tell the truth was because he figured out that Wang Xing would create Fanfou.com because he believed that this kind of mini-blog would be popular, so his words would not have much impact on Wang Xing with or without him.
How can an entrepreneur, especially one like Wang Xing, who has experienced success and failure, be changed by just a few words from others?
“Mr. Wang’s idea for Fanfou.com probably came from Twitter abroad.”
"Yes, the idea of Fanfou.com did come from Twitter, including my earliest school network, which was also inspired by foreign faebooks, so some people say that I am the originator of plagiarism."
Wang Xing is very honest and even deliberately laughs at himself, because in the eyes of some people, his Xiaonei.com and Fanfou.com are plagiarisms from foreign Facebook and Twitter.
"The West is different from ours in terms of politics and culture, so if we just rely on plagiarizing foreign ideas, how can we really survive and become popular?"
Su Wang has no prejudice against Wang Xing, because Wang Xing is not the only one who plagiarizes foreign ideas. All companies on the Internet now copy the Western Internet. Baidu is benchmarking against Google, Alibaba is benchmarking against Amazon, QQ is benchmarking against MSN...
In the Internet at this time, Silicon Valley in the United States still plays the role of a holy place and a guide.
But don’t forget one thing, there are so many people studying abroad, and it’s not just the above few domestic Internet entrepreneurs who copy Western Internet ideas. But the reason why only these few survived in the end is because they didn’t just copy,
Rather, it integrates the national conditions and the living habits of the domestic people.
"Actually, I have also done some research on Fanfou.com. Mr. Wang has restricted Fanfou to a maximum of 140 words in a message. I guess it is to pay tribute to Twitter."
Hearing Su Wang's words, Wang Xing felt as if he had met a close friend, although this close friend was much younger than himself.
Fanfou sets a limit of 140 words for a message. Many people think it is because they copied Twitter's settings and plagiarized openly. However, this is not the case in fact.
The reason why Twitter sets the 140-byte setting is because the maximum carrying capacity of a text message on foreign mobile phones is 140 bytes, and one English letter is exactly 1 byte, because Twitter is bound to the mobile phone, that is
When you use a mobile phone to send a message, you actually have to pay for a text message. If it exceeds 140 bytes, it means you will be charged for one more text message.
In addition, due to the size of the mobile phone screen, if it exceeds 140 bytes, you may have to turn pages, which is not friendly to the user experience.
However, Chinese characters are used in China, and one Chinese character is two bytes. That is to say, if you want to save text message costs, Fanfou should set a maximum of 70 Chinese characters instead of 140 Chinese characters.
The purpose of doing this is firstly because of the reading experience, because 70 words is sometimes too short, but the bigger purpose is to pay tribute to Twitter. Unfortunately, not many people know his thoughts.
Seeing Wang Xing's moved expression, Su Wang was snickering in his heart. The reason why he knew Wang Xing's thoughts was because when Fanfou.com was closed later, Wang Xing revealed this in an interview with the media.
Voice of the heart.
"Mr. Su knows Fanfou so well, so in Mr. Su's opinion, what is the biggest problem currently facing Fanfou.com?" Wang Xing suddenly asked.
After asking this question, seeing that the other party just smiled implicitly, Wang Xing finally realized that the question he asked was a bit abrupt. Fanfou.com was his own, and he only met by chance, without deeper interpersonal communication, so why should he talk to him?
Discuss these.
Although there is currently no competitive relationship between Fanfou.com and Kaixin.com, there are no barriers between each other in the Internet industry. If there is no competition now, it does not mean that there will not be in the future. If Fanfou.com becomes bigger, I can’t guarantee that it will not be competitive.
Will try to enter social networking sites again.
Similarly, if Kaixin.com becomes bigger and kills Xiaonei.com, who knows if Kaixin.com will want to set foot in mini-blogs.
"It's because I was abrupt, but this time I got along very well with Mr. Chen and Mr. Su, so I won't hide it. This time, I asked Mr. Wang's favor to invite you two over. In addition to wanting to make friends with you, I also saved some money.
Another bit of selfishness."
Su Wang and Chen Binghao showed their listening postures. At this time, the conversation finally got to the point.
"The current number of Kaixin.com users has exceeded 10 million, and it is still advancing at a rapid rate. With such a huge number of users, if Kaixin.com is willing to undertake advertising, the income will be very considerable, but Kaixin.com has not done so.
I think Mr. Chen and Mr. Su have extremely ambitious goals, and their determination and determination are beyond the reach of others."
Hearing Wang Xing's words, Su Wang and Chen Binghao just smiled. This is the difference between Chinese and foreigners. Before talking about things, they always have to praise each other.
"Mr. Wang is not bad either. At present, domestic mini-blog website companies charge text message fees for sending messages via mobile phones. Only Fanfou.com has the company bear the text message fees."
Everyone was carrying the sedan chair. If the other party praised him, he would naturally praise the other party as well. Of course, Su Wang thought he was telling the truth.
After next year, Sina Weibo and other mobile Weibo companies will spring up like mushrooms after a spring rain, but none of these mobile Weibo companies will charge users SMS fees.
"I am also helpless. If I want to break out of the siege, I can only rely on this method."
Wang Xing's words made Su Wang's expression become a little weird, because he thought that in a few years, after Wang Xing founded Meituan, the unprecedented grand battle of thousands of groups would appear on the Internet.
Thousands of group buying websites appeared on the Internet. Every year, hundreds of them went bankrupt and hundreds more were born. It took five years for this war to end. Because it was a group buying website, people jokingly called it the Hundred Group War.
In order to grab merchants, subsidize money, underwrite sales, and advertise for free, major group buying websites almost always lose money and compete for territory. A movie ticket only costs 6 yuan, and you can even get a cup of Coke. This situation was during the Hundred Regiments War.
Found everywhere.
It’s no wonder that Wang Xing was able to lead Meituan to fight through such a fierce battle and establish its dominance. This kind of thinking that is willing to spend money to gain users has already appeared at this time.
"Mr. Chen, Mr. Su, let me get straight to the point. I want to cooperate with your company to promote Fanfou on Kaixin.com."
Wang Xing finally revealed the purpose of his treat this time.
"Kaixin.com is a social networking site where users can post diaries and articles, while a message on Fanfou.com can only have a maximum of 140 words. It can be said that there is no conflict between the two parties."
"Many users sometimes want to express their feelings or something, and it may only be one or two sentences. If it is written in a diary or article, the number of words is obviously not enough, and my fanfou.com just meets this need of users."
"Similarly, users on Fanfou.com sometimes may not be able to express their feelings and opinions in 140 characters, but if they are posted in multiple posts, it will inevitably be troublesome. At this time, they can publish long articles on Kaixin.com, just like a blog.
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"Users of Fanfou.com do not need to log in to the blog website to post long articles. They can directly click on your Kaixin.com link on Fanfou.com to enter the blog page. Users of Kaixin.com can also click on the link to jump to the page of Fanfou.com.
, in this way, the user’s operation will be much more convenient, and they will not think about using other companies’ products.”
Chen Binghao's eyes lit up because he agreed with Wang Xing's idea. Having been in the Internet industry for many years, he deeply realized how important it is to simplify user operations.
However, this does not mean that he wants to cooperate with Fanfou.com.
The current users of Fanfou.com are only in the millions. Such cooperation would be a disadvantage for Kaixin.com, because Fanfou.com has limited traffic to Kaixin.com. With the current user base of Kaixin.com, it is completely possible to do so on its own.
Make a mini blog website.
Of course, Chen Binghao’s idea does not mean that he rejects Fanfou.com. After all, Fanfou.com is still very popular now and has a large number of cutting-edge netizens and programmers. This user resource is something that a new mini-blog website does not have.
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Neither Su Wang nor Chen Binghao responded immediately because they believed that Wang Xing would not know how much advantage this cooperation would bring to Fanfou.com, and if he wanted to take advantage of this advantage, he would have to pay corresponding costs.
"If the two parties cooperate, then I will definitely take advantage, so I am willing to spend 50 million in cooperative advertising expenses."
Wang Xing saw Chen Binghao and Su Wang who were unmoved and stated his conditions.
Hearing Wang Xing's words, Chen Binghao was a little moved. With the current number of users of Kaixin.com, if it opened up advertising cooperation, it would probably be able to earn tens of millions of dollars a year.
However, accepting these advertisements will affect the cleanliness of Kaixin.com's pages, and thus affect the user experience. Therefore, it is not that Chen Binghao is not interested in money, but that Kaixin.com is not allowed to do this at this stage.
But if it is advertising for Fanfou.com, as Wang Xing said, it will be complementary to Kaixin.com, making the functions of Kaixin.com more complete.
If I don’t have the idea of entering a mini blog, then this cooperation is completely acceptable, and I really don’t have much idea about the mini blog.
Thinking of this, Chen Binghao was about to agree, but before he spoke, there was a cough from the side.
"Mr. Wang, I'm afraid we can't accept your cooperation method."
It was Su Wang who spoke, and as soon as he said his words, the three people present were stunned, and they all looked at him with puzzled expressions.