At the end of Case's introduction to the features of the AOL community, he stepped off the stage and returned to his position, and then a staff member lowered a huge projection cloth.

And all the curtains in the conference room were closed, and all the lights were turned off, and the conference room seemed to be turned into a movie theater.

The time soon came to 9:30 o'clock,AOL community officially launched,The projection cloth appeared in the background of the AOL community,There is no movement yet,It will take a while before there is a reaction。

Nowadays, the Internet speed is very slow, the speed at which users download software is even slower, and the people in the conference room are patiently waiting for the reaction of the background situation.

Keith and Paul's positions were connected, and on Paul's left, Keith's body leaned towards Paul, and said in a very low voice in Paul's ear, "How is Xu Qing's reaction?"

Keith has always felt that something will happen at today's press conference, and he thinks that Xu Qing can't not react to AOL's various actions, and Xu Qing may cause trouble at today's press conference.

Just now, Keith was talking about the function of the AOL community on stage, and he didn't have the energy to pay attention to Xu Qing's reaction, so he asked Paul to observe Xu Qing's expression.

Paul's request for Keith is a little helpless, AOL and IDG are two giants united, so you need to be afraid of Xu Qing.

But he still has to deal with Case's request seriously, after all, the two sides are now cooperating in the first month.

Paul also replied to Keith in a very low voice: "Xu Qing's reactions are all normal reactions, and there is no abnormality. ”

When Keith heard Paul's words, not only did he not let go of his worries, but he grew more and more.

Because the conference room was dark, Paul couldn't see Keith's expression, but he could feel Keith's worry, and he couldn't bear the helplessness in his heart and comforted Keith:

"Case, it's useless for you to worry now, the AOL community has already released, what we need to do is to make AOL reach 400,000 registrations in 3 hours, and don't think too much about other things. ”

Keith took a few deep breaths, finally calmed down his uneasiness, and looked at the background of the AOL community displayed on the projection cloth.

A few minutes later, the backstage of the AOL community began to change, and the number Keith saw at first was 22, and soon it was hundreds in the blink of an eye, Keith clenched his fists and looked at the backstage situation.

Half an hour later, the AOL community background showed that the number of registrations reached more than 37,000, which is higher than the more than 35,000 registrations in the future community in half an hour.

Keith has all kinds of data from the future community in his mind, and as soon as the data of the AOL community comes out, he can immediately compare the data of the future community.

Now the half-hour registration has exceeded the half-hour record of the future community, and the next hour is the data.

Time passed quickly, the AOL community had been online for 1 hour, and the number of registrations was more than 110,000.

The number of registrations in the future community in one hour is more than 150,000, and the AOL community is less than 40,000.

This is a very large gap, and it is conceivable that if there are no special circumstances, the gap will be larger and larger.

Not to mention 400,000 registrations in 3 hours, Case suspects that 300,000 registrations are likely to be missed.

The room guests and the media were already looking down on the talk, and everyone in the room could see that the situation in the AOL community was not good.

Because AOL has been advertising to exceed the 3-hour registration record of the future community, AOL even sent out a piece of paper at each seat with the registration volume of the future community for half an hour, 1 hour, 2 hours, and 3 hours.

Just now, the AOL community had more registrations in half an hour than the future community, and many people thought that the slogan shouted by AOL would become a reality.

However, the number of registrations in one hour of AOL community is more than 40,000 less than that of the future community, and with such a big gap, the chances of AOL community surpassing future community are very small, let alone reaching 400,000 registrations.

Those media outlets are excited, and whether the AOL community has more registrations than the future community or less than the future community, it's big news for them.

If the AOL community outnumbered the future community, they would write something like "The new king ascends the throne, and the AOL community surpasses the future community to become the No. 1 community site in America!"

If the AOL community had fewer registrations than the future community, they would write something like "AOL slaps itself in the face, it's just a joke to surpass the future community!"

That's how the media loves big news, and they hope that if the AOL community has more registrations than the future community, then the more the better, and if there are fewer than the future community, then the less the better, so that the news value will be greater.

Paul's face also changed suddenly when he saw the number of registrations in the AOL community in 1 hour, although the AOL community failed and did not have much impact on IDG, he still hoped that the AOL community would succeed.

Paul whispered in a very low voice in Case's ear, "Now we're going to use those tactics, or the AOL community will die an ugly death." ”

Keith hesitated for a few moments, using those means, he could make the AOL community reach 400,000 registrations in 3 hours, but if those methods were discovered, AOL would fall into the abyss.

Paul continued to whisper: "Don't hesitate, the matter is now, we can only continue to walk, and the sooner we use those means, the less suspicious it will be." ”

Keith exhaled heavily, touched the person to his left three times with his left hand, and after more than 10 seconds, the person sitting on the far left of the first row quietly left the conference room.

The man came to a room where several young people were seated, and there were several computers on the table in front of them, and the man said a few words to the young men, who quickly tapped on the keyboard.

After a few minutes, the number of registrations for the AOL community was gradually increasing, and the rate of growth was very smooth, and many people could not see that the registration of the AOL community was already cheating.

Keith looked at the growing number of registrations and nervous, praying that he wouldn't be caught cheating.

It has been 2 hours since the AOL community was launched, and the data at this time is 250,000, which is 10,000 more than the data of the future community.

The discussion in the conference room sounded again, this time the discussion was louder than the last time, they didn't expect that the previous AOL community had more than 40,000 fewer registrations in 1 hour than the future community, and now in 2 hours of registration, the AOL community turned out to be 1 more than the future community.

Whether this is a counterattack or a fraud is a question in the minds of many people at this time, but they have been looking at the data, which is not quite like fraud.

There is also this possibility, the strength of AOL and IDG is so strong, and the publicity fee has spent tens of millions of dollars, and it is not impossible to counterattack the future community.

Keith heard the chatter from the guests and the media, hearing that some people suspected AOL of cheating, but many more thought that AOL had fought back.

Keys breathed a sigh of relief, some people suspected that AOL cheating was inevitable, but as long as most people thought AOL was counterattacking.

Afterwards, Case will give some benefits to major media outlets, so that when they write reports, they try to write about AOL's counterattack on the future community.

Isn't this kind of counterattack story also very good!