"Can't you ask the backend of QQ to remove the invisibility function first?" Bill Gates said coldly, "I think you're just looking for an excuse!"
"Hehe, of course, it's not a problem to remove the invisibility function, but I'm afraid that someone will say that I can change my status in the backend and change all my friends to be online. That's not fun!" Boss Jia said with a smile, "If Mr. Bill Gates can guarantee that there won't be any doubts about the data after I remove the invisibility function, I'll order the backend to remove the invisibility function now!"
"…" Bill Gates didn't say anything. If Jia Yapeng really played this trick, he would be forced into a corner.
"I have an idea!" A reporter on the side suddenly said.
"Tell me about it!" Bill Gates looked at the reporter with an encouraging look. At the same time, he hoped that the reporter could really come up with a good idea. Otherwise, he would be very embarrassed.
"We can send a message to all our friends. If they reply to us immediately, they will naturally be the friends who are online at this time!" The reporter said.
"Good idea!" Bill Gates praised. This was indeed the best idea in the current situation. Then he looked at Jia Yapeng provocatively and said, "Mr. Jia, what do you think of this idea?"
"I have no objection in principle, as long as MSN also uses this method to test the number of people online, instead of just looking at the online status!" Boss Jia also agreed. The matter was settled just like that.
With the agreement of the two big bosses, someone immediately took two laptops and connected them to the Internet. Then he first selected a reporter and let him log in on his MSN and QQ at the same time.
"Oh, the number of people is about the same!" When the reporter's MSN and QQ were logged in, the number of his friends was naturally exposed. It was about 200 friends.
Don't think that it was a small number. In 1999, this was definitely a huge circle of friends.
"Are you there?" The reporter entered such a simple greeting. When he was about to send it to the group, Boss Jia suddenly stopped him and said, "Send one if you are there. I guarantee that many people won't reply to you at all!"
"Ah … Then what should I send?" The reporter looked at Boss Jia blankly. Then, Boss Jia took the initiative to walk over and directly typed this paragraph. "Urgent news, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were bombed today!"
Then, he clicked confirm and sent this message to all his QQ and MSN friend groups.
"Mr. Jia, what are you …" The reporter stared at Boss Jia's message, dumbfounded.
"Sigh, if you don't post such explosive news, those old foxes who always lurk in the dark wouldn't care about you!" Boss Jia said with a grin.
"But, this kind of news can't be randomly released. This is nonsense!" The reporter said helplessly.
"It's okay. We're just sending it to your friends. We're not asking you to publish it on the news. We're just having fun!" Boss Jia said nonchalantly, "And do you really think that someone could blow up the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center?"
"Hahahahaha!" Almost everyone around them laughed. They didn't expect the richest man in the world to be so humorous. It was really funny!
Everyone laughed happily. They all instinctively thought that Boss Jia was just making a funny joke.
Of course, such a joke could only be made in 1999. No one would think that there was anything wrong with it. But ten years later, when all kinds of political correctness crazily spread throughout the United States, whoever dared to make such a joke would definitely be courting death.
In the midst of everyone's laughter, the reporter's QQ and MSN immediately rang with crazy beeping sounds. Among the 200 friends who were sent the message, those who were online immediately replied with all kinds of question marks. Some people even asked if it was true.
Even the reporter's boss directly told him that he had already arranged the page and asked the reporter to write a message to him or something within 10 minutes.
The reporter could only look at these replies with tears in his eyes. He felt that his career as a reporter was about to come to an end.
After the staff counted all the replies on QQ and MSN, the reporter hurriedly rushed up and typed a paragraph of explanation. He told them that this was part of the verification of QQ and MSN. Then, he sent it out to the group while praying that he wouldn't be blocked by the company or his friends!
But in fact, the reporter's worries were unnecessary because this interesting competition quickly became the big news the next day. As a member who personally participated in it, the reporter was even rewarded by the company.
At the same time, the final statistics were first sent to the old president.
The old president only took one look and snorted coldly. Then, he directly announced the results!
"How is this possible …" Bill Gates only took one look and felt that the world was spinning.
The results were as follows: Reporter Jones had a total of 212 friends on MSN, and the number of replies was 8.
He had a total of 249 friends on QQ, and the number of replies was 82.
This result also shocked all the reporters on the scene. Although they had seen the replies from the two computers with their own eyes, because of the distance between them and the number of replies at the same time, it caused each other to be covered. In fact, they couldn't see the exact number of replies.
But according to the results, it was clear that QQ had more replies. But they never thought that the number of replies would be 10 times more than MSN. This was an extremely terrifying number!
"Do you want another reporter friend?" Seeing this result, Boss Jia narrowed his eyes and said. Bill Gates didn't say anything. Even if his intelligence was lowered, he still felt that today's situation was seriously different from what he had imagined.
But the problem was that if he refused, then he would really lose!!
Bill Gates hesitated, but our Boss Jia didn't give him a chance to hesitate. He directly asked someone to invite another reporter to log into his QQ and MSN account and post the same fake news.
Then, the staff quickly calculated the results.
Reporter Mei Lan had a total of 187 friends on MSN, and the number of replies was 4.
She had a total of 368 friends on QQ, and the number of replies was 139.
Mei Lan's results were even more direct. First of all, her QQ friends were twice as many as her MSN friends. The number of replies was actually 30 times more than the number of replies. This result made Bill Gates tremble all over.
"Come, two reporters still aren't enough to prove anything. Let's invite the third reporter!" Jia Yapeng was about to invite the third reporter to do the experiment.
"Enough!" Bill Gates burst out and interrupted our Boss Jia. Then, he looked at Jia Yapeng with red eyes and said, "I don't know what method you used, but since the result is like this, then so be it!"
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