Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Although 2012G had not yet been launched in China in 4, 3G was still able to play some low-resolution short videos.

Nowadays, when watching videos using data, the 360P data-saving mode is used.

Moreover, there is WiFi at work and at home, so Douyin still has a bright future. Of course, it cannot be compared with the situation many years later.

The previous life of Kuaishou started making short videos in November 2012.

Originally, Wang Yi didn’t want to promote Douyin so early, but Kuaishou was about to make short videos. If Wang Yi didn’t promote Douyin, Kuaishou would have taken the lead and he would have been in all kinds of trouble.

Even if it surpasses Kuaishou in the future, it will still be labeled as "copying Kuaishou" and "the eternal runner-up".

In addition, the promotion of Hanfu requires short videos on Tik Tok.

The clothing industry will only become more and more competitive in the future. The subsequent revenue of Meiyu and Zhenyu will also require Douyin short videos to acquire customers and increase exposure and traffic.

Subsequent comprehensive e-commerce and local life layout will also require Douyin.

Due to various factors, Wang Yi had no choice but to launch Douyin directly!

Although there was no 4G, it couldn’t be as popular as it would be four years later.

But with wifi and Star Card free traffic, plus the first-mover advantage, it can still be done.

More importantly, in the 1.0 version of Douyin, Wang Yi specially added a pre-caching function under WiFi mode.

It also allows you to set cache size and clear cache with one click.

You can cache several GB of short videos at home in advance so that you can watch them offline.

This way, we can make up for some of it.

In addition, mobile devices are not well developed these days, but PC devices are still very powerful.

Many people install TikTok on PC and watch it on their computer.

Just like the initial live streaming, it all became popular from the PC.

A few years later, it was the mobile version.

In addition, since it is produced by Xingyi Technology, it must be a high-quality product, and Wang Yi has great appeal.

Many celebrities have seen the unlimited potential and bright future of TikTok and have joined it decisively.

Especially those celebrities who want to cooperate with Xingyi Media are extremely enthusiastic.

With the explosive popularity of the self-produced drama "Nirvana in Fire", the entire entertainment industry has seen the strength of Xingyi Media.

Many celebrities are eager to have a chance to work with Xingyi Media and maybe become famous.

In addition, Tik Tok is fun and can increase fans, so those stars can no longer remain calm.

They decisively joined Douyin and asked their management team to write copy, shoot videos, and post on Douyin...

So much so that in the next few days, many celebrities took the initiative to join Douyin every day, and many celebrities enthusiastically started live broadcasts to attract fans!

The users are equally enthusiastic.

Especially, Tik Tok has integrated a beauty function. The photos taken are much better looking than those taken with most mobile phones, making it even more impossible to remain calm!

Nowadays, except for the Xingyi mobile phone, other brands of mobile phones do not have beauty function and are still under development.

This means that users of other brands who want to experience the beauty function must either replace their phones with Xingyi phones or use TikTok!

The cost of changing to a Xingyi phone is too high, and many people are reluctant to change the 4S after just using it for a year.

But downloading TikTok is zero cost.

So a lot of girls registered on TikTok, took a lot of beautiful photos and videos, and posted them on TikTok.

These beautiful photos and short videos have attracted a large group of male users!

Focus on a closed loop!

Not surprisingly, TikTok became a huge hit on the entire Internet from the first day it went online.

In the following days, it became more and more popular.

As a result, Douyin has been firmly in control of the hot searches for several consecutive days.

Weibo was helpless about this and felt like it was facing a formidable enemy, so it had to hold a high-level meeting:

"I never expected that the one that defeated us was not WeChat, Changliao, or Tieba, but TikTok!"

Weibo Chairman Cao Wei spoke with a sullen face, his expression was extremely ugly.

He had just taken office as the chairman of Weibo in August and was preparing to strictly guard Changchat.

Finally, Tik Tok released it!

Although it has only been released for three days, Cao Wei knows that Douyin has endless potential and its future is limitless.

There is a high probability that it will have a serious impact on the development of Weibo.

What an eventful year it has been.

One shareholder was a little skeptical: "Chairman, isn't that a bit alarmist? Changchat has more than 300 million users, but it can't beat Weibo. Douyin is just a new company with only a few million users. How much of a threat can it pose to Weibo?"

"How many millions of users?" Cao Wei frowned. "Although Xingyi Technology has not released specific data, we all know that on the first day alone, the number of downloads of Douyin exceeded five million! Now that three days have passed, I'm afraid there are already 20 million users."

"Ah? Not really?" The shareholder was shocked and still found it unbelievable.

Twenty million in three days?

Crazy!

Cao Wei sighed: "Xingyi Technology's press conference has a huge influence. It has been on the hot search every day for three consecutive days. It is hard not to see a surge in users. In addition, short videos are a brand new model, and Douyin is the only short video platform. Their dissemination speed will spread like a virus."

The vice president also said: "Not only that, Xingyi Technology has not used its ultimate move yet. In a few days, there will be a wave of system updates. More than 2.5 million Xingyi mobile phones and more than 3 million Xingyi tablets will have Douyin built-in directly. The number of users will instantly exceed million, or even million!"

"..."

"grass!"

"Made!"

"You don't have martial ethics!"

"Fuck!"

After a brief silence, everyone in the room started cursing.

Shameless!

It's so shameless!

For other software, it is extremely difficult to gain over 100 million users.

What about Xingyi Technology?

After one wave of system updates, the number of users exceeded 200 million.

It's totally shameless!

The director's face also changed drastically, and he gnashed his teeth in hatred:

"Comparing goods makes you lose, and comparing people makes you die. If this continues, Douyin will really pose a serious threat to our Weibo."

Cao Wei nodded: "Well, in the past three days, hundreds of celebrities have joined Douyin collectively, which is the best example. The rise of Douyin is unstoppable!"

"What are these stars looking for?" Someone else didn't understand:

"The first batch of stars to join Douyin are all contracted artists of Xingyi Media and contracted influencers of Mayu Technology. We understand that their own platforms support them."

"The second batch of people who moved in are celebrities who have cooperated with Xingyi Technology and have a good relationship with it. It is understandable that they are showing their support."

"The third batch of people who moved in are small celebrities who want to cooperate with Xingyi Technology. It makes sense for them to hand in their loyalty and curry favor with them in advance!"

“But the problem is, why do those first- and second-tier celebrities who don’t need to please Xingyi Technology also want to join Douyin? This is unscientific!”

Hearing this, Cao Wei smiled and said, "Lao Liu, you are a technical person, so your thinking is a little limited. Those first- and second-tier big stars don't have to support Xingyi Technology, but they need fans!"

"When all the stars think that Douyin must be the next Weibo, and the number of Douyin fans is as important as the number of Weibo fans, what do you think they will do?"

“Hiss!” Old Liu took a breath of cold air: “They will move in first, start broadcasting, and scramble for fans like crazy!”

"Right, that's the truth! Just like playing a game, the opening stage is always the best time to develop. Once you enter the game late, it will be even more difficult."

Cao Wei said: "This is why many celebrities have turned to Douyin and settled in Douyin. In the past few days, the number of Weibo posts they have made has decreased a lot. The time they are online has also decreased a lot. They are all going to Douyin to live broadcast and shoot Douyin short videos, damn!"

As he spoke, a set of data was projected on the big screen at the back, which was a comparison of the star's data three days ago and three days later.

Over the past three days, more than 30% of celebrities have reduced their Weibo login time by 70%!

For more than 60% of celebrities, the time they spend logged into Weibo has been reduced by 50%!

“It can be seen from this that these celebrities are all shooting Douyin or watching Douyin!”

Cao Wei sighed: "We must pay great attention to this. If we continue to allow Douyin to develop like this, it will definitely be a disaster for our Weibo."

A group of senior executives nodded:

"Yes, we must find a way to curb the development of TikTok!"

"WeChat, the last arch-enemy of Weibo, was killed by Changliao. If we don't pay attention to it, Weibo will also be hit hard by Douyin!"

“How can we take it seriously? Tik Tok is still on our Weibo trending search list!”

“Many celebrities are still promoting their Douyin accounts on their Weibo accounts!”

"This group of people are so despicable. They are trying to shake the foundation of our Weibo and steal our Weibo users!"

“I suggest that TikTok be immediately marked as a sensitive word and completely banned!”

"Yes, only in this way can we prevent Douyin from snatching people from Weibo. Otherwise, if things continue like this, Douyin will grow stronger and Weibo will suffer."

"That's right, it must be banned, and it must be banned immediately. We can't let TikTok continue to steal our users!"

……

Listening to the passionate words of the crowd, Cao Wei's mouth twitched: "Very good, let's ban TikTok and remove Weibo from Xingyi phones."

"This……"

For a moment, everyone was silent, and their original arrogance was instantly extinguished.

The vice president sighed: "Now Baidu doesn't dare to continue to ban Xingyi Technology, let alone our Weibo. Don't do this."

"Yes, once it is removed from the Xingyi mobile phone shelves, it will directly lose hundreds of millions of users. No, we can't bear it."

"Well, what should we do? Even banning them won't work. We can only watch them steal our users."

Cao Wei took a deep breath and said, "Banning is not an option. Xingyi has over 100 million mobile phone users, and no one dares to ban Douyin. But we can confront it head-on."

"Direct confrontation? We can't fight against TikTok either. They have Xingyi Technology behind them! What can Weibo do to compare with Xingyi Technology?"

"That's right. Baidu was beaten badly by Xingyi Technology. We are definitely no match for them."

Cao Wei nodded: "You are right, Weibo is no match for Xingyi Technology. We can bring in allies, BAT-level allies!"

"Chairman, are you talking about Ali?"

"That's right. Alibaba's social networking has always been a failure. It can't compete with Tencent QQ and Baidu Tieba, so it set its sights on our Weibo."

"Especially the explosive popularity of Changliao has made Alibaba more determined to acquire Weibo."

Cao Wei slowly said: "No one welcomed Alibaba's acquisition before, and I also strongly opposed it. Later, Alibaba took a step back and gave up the full acquisition and changed to holding a controlling stake in Weibo."

"I didn't agree to take control of Weibo!"

"But unfortunately, things are different now."

“Without TikTok, we can refuse Alibaba’s controlling stake in Weibo and continue negotiations, and finally let it invest but not control.”

"Now that we have TikTok, our Weibo's future is bumpy. Weibo alone is no match for TikTok, so we have to introduce a large amount of capital from Alibaba, even if it means giving it a controlling stake!"

"Oh!" Everyone sighed.

I created Weibo and finally made it a social networking giant. I really don’t want to be controlled by Alibaba.

But now, it seems that it is impossible without a controlling stake.