Leonardo and Schwarzenegger do not have a close relationship. Although the two are not acquaintances, they are just ordinary friends. However, they both have a common friend - the great director James Cameron.
Cameron is currently working on two major Hollywood masterpieces, one is "Terminator" and the other is "Titanic". He is working with these two actors respectively, so he has become Schwarzenegger and Leonardo The best link for communication.
Because Schwarzenegger really attaches great importance to running for California governor, and the famous Hollywood happens to be in California, so Hollywood on the whole is very supportive of Schwarzenegger's candidacy, and also hopes that he can succeed in the candidacy, because, Schwarzenegger If Ge is successful in the campaign, it will definitely be a good thing for Hollywood.
So when Cameron heard that Schwarzenegger hoped to establish contact with Li Mu through Leonardo, he immediately agreed without hesitation.
Leonardo was filming in China. After receiving the call from Cameron, he immediately agreed to help, and then quickly called Li Mu.
Li Mu was visiting the Goldberg family wine estate when he received Leonardo's call. He was particularly surprised by his call. Although the two had met several times, they had no personal contact and thought Leonardo was looking for him. Something happened in "Flying Tigers", but unexpectedly, Leonardo said very apologetically: "Mr. Li, I'm sorry to disturb you. Actually, I have something entrusted by someone, and I want to ask you for a favor." .”
Li Mu then said: "Leo, we are all friends. You don't have to be so polite to me. If you have anything to do, just ask. I will definitely not shirk it if I can do it."
Leonardo thanked him and then said: "Mr. Li, that's it. You should know about Arnold Schwarzenegger, right?"
Li Mu nodded: "Of course I know. I've seen many of his movies. What's wrong?"
Leonardo hurriedly explained: "Arnold is now actively preparing to run for governor of California, but in the United States, whether you are running for congressman, governor, or even president, you need strong publicity support. Arnold feels that Makino Technology's Twitter is It’s a very good campaign promotion platform, so he wanted me to ask Mr. Li on his behalf if I could help him promote it on Twitter.”
Schwarzenegger's classic Terminator look suddenly appeared in Li Mu's memory. This eldest brother is also one of Li Mu's favorite action actors. Li Mu had also heard about his campaign for governor of California in the United States in his previous life.
In a previous life, the news that Schwarzenegger was successfully elected as the governor of California was covered all over the world. People were very concerned about the news that such a Hollywood A-list action star suddenly entered politics. Moreover, Schwarzenegger has been in politics for a long time because he was successfully elected as governor at the end of 2003. After that, he basically didn't appear in any more movies. In Li Mu's memory, the last time he saw him on the big screen was in Stallone's first "The Expendables", when Schwarzenegger suddenly made a cameo appearance in the movie. , the entire audience in the screening hall exclaimed, and Li Mu was also surprised, because he had indeed been away from the big screen for too long at that time.
Based on this calculation, Schwarzenegger should have completed two terms as governor, which also indicates that he succeeded in this election and will still be successful in the next election.
Since he succeeded in his last life, he should be able to succeed in this life if there are no major deviations. However, he did not expect that Schwarzenegger would think of using Twitter to help him campaign, which surprised Li Mu.
Twitter has now attracted ordinary users, elites, celebrities, companies, and institutions to settle in. The only people who have not yet entered Twitter are government agencies and government personnel in various countries. Schwarzenegger seems to be a good breakthrough point. It will also serve as a good example. If Schwarzenegger conveys his political opinions through Twitter and can get an enthusiastic response from the public, then other American politicians will probably follow suit. In this way, the influence of Twitter will be greatly reduced. It will go to the next level.
Moreover, Schwarzenegger himself wants to succeed, and now he takes the initiative to ask for help, so why not give him a favor? After all, not only is Hollywood in California, but Silicon Valley is in California too! From now on, this buddy will be the parent officer of Makino Technology North America Branch. If the relationship is established in advance, it will definitely be very helpful.
The political structure of the United States itself is relatively commercial. There will be very close cooperation between candidates and the individuals and companies that support their campaigns. Once the election is successful, they must give each other certain rewards. This is also within the entire American operating system. The default unspoken rule is that if Makino Technology helps Schwarzenegger run for governor of California, then after Schwarzenegger succeeds in the election, Makino Technology must be given certain rewards.
The best kind of business is this. He can obviously do it on his own, but he has no confidence and has to ask for your help. Even if you just deal with him, he will be grateful to you when he succeeds. Even if he is not grateful, at least he is indebted to you. A debt of gratitude.
Therefore, Li Mu decided to accept the matter after just a slight consideration.
He smiled and said to Leonardo: "It is no problem to help Mr. Schwarzenegger campaign. We are willing to provide support, but the specific method of support cannot be decided until we communicate with Mr. Schwarzenegger." .”
Leonardo said hurriedly: "Isn't it convenient for Mr. Li to have a phone call with Arnold? What specific method should you use to communicate on the phone?"
Li Mu then said, "OK, give Mr. Schwarzenegger my number and ask him to contact me directly."
"Thank you so much, Mr. Li." Leonardo breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said, "I'll convey it to him right now."
"OK."
As soon as Li Mu hung up the phone, Anne Hathaway on the side asked curiously: "Mr. Li, does Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger want you to help him run for governor?"
As soon as Anne Hathaway's words came out, Wendy Goldberg, who was beside her, despised her in her heart. She felt that Anne Hathaway was too careless and uncultured. Although Li Mu didn't shy away from everyone when he answered the phone just now, But it was really rude and extremely rude for her to directly ask Li Mu about what he talked about when he answered the phone.
However, I didn’t expect that Li Mu’s expression showed no dissatisfaction. Instead, he smiled very naturally and said to Anne Hathaway: “Schwarzenegger thinks Twitter is a good channel for campaign promotion, so I hope we can help."
Anne Hathaway nodded and said seriously: "I have heard others talk about this matter. Hollywood is very supportive of his candidacy."
Li Mu smiled and said: "Hollywood supports it, and so do I. If he wants to use Twitter to improve the success rate of his campaign, I am also willing to help."
Wendy Goldberg didn't expect that Li Mu would completely ignore Anne Hathaway's rudeness. If the temper of the British aristocrats were different, even if they didn't scold Anne Hathaway, they would at least give her a bad look. Take a look, but Li Mu doesn't think there's anything wrong with it at all, let alone take it seriously.
At this time, Li Mu's cell phone rang again. This time the caller was from a number in the United States.
"Hello."
"Hello, is this Mr. Li Muli?"
Schwarzenegger asked softly, and you could even hear a bit of nervousness in his voice.
In fact, Schwarzenegger is indeed very nervous. Although he is a first-line star in Hollywood, in terms of net worth and social influence, he is far inferior to Li Mu. Asking a top player like Li Mu for help is inherently bottomless and inevitable. Things like low self-esteem and nervousness are difficult to control.
Li Mu smiled and said, "It's me. Are you Mr. Schwarzenegger?"
"It's me." Schwarzenegger smiled and said politely and humbly: "I'm very sorry to disturb you, Mr. Li. I called you for two reasons. One is because I have heard of your name for a long time and I admire you very much; The second one is a personal request, hoping to get your help."
Li Mu smiled modestly and said: "Mr. Schwarzenegger, you are too polite. I grew up watching your movies. If I really have to use the word "admiration", it should be me who admires you."
After that, Li Mu added: "Leo has already told me about the second thing you just said. I am personally very willing to provide help to the best of my ability, but I don't know what your core appeal is? Do you want us to Do you want to promote your political views to users, or do you want us to promote you as a person to users?”
Schwarzenegger suddenly became excited on the other end of the phone. He tried hard to adjust his breathing. After calming down, he said: "I personally prefer the latter. I wonder if Mr. Li has any good suggestions?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "I also prefer the latter, but it is too troublesome to explain the specific method on the phone. Why not do this? I will arrange it later and let my colleagues in the United States make algorithm adjustments to increase the number of Americans." Users pay attention to you, which should quickly increase your number of fans.”
Schwarzenegger hurriedly said gratefully: "Thank you so much, Mr. Li!"
"A friend of a friend is my friend, and you're welcome Mr. Schwarzenegger."
Although Li Mu wanted to help Schwarzenegger, he did not want to affect the experience of Twitter users in order to help Schwarzenegger.
If you display Schwarzenegger's Twitter posts to users who have not followed him through pop-up reminders or automatically appear in user waterfalls, then this in itself deviates from your own definition of Twitter. Although the effect of such a promotion will be very strong, Li Mu does not want to set a precedent because of Schwarzenegger. Such strong promotion should not be used when unnecessary, and it can only be used for personal use when necessary.
As for the second method, it is much gentler to handle. You only need to gently guide users to pay attention to Schwarzenegger.
In order to directly divert traffic to certain accounts, Li Mu has long left a hidden path in Twitter.
There is a column on the Twitter page called "Your friends are also following". This column has a high display volume and basically accompanies the user throughout the entire process. This column uses an algorithm to use the watch list of the users to follow. Run a big data and recommend some people worthy of his attention to the user.
For example, A follows 100 people, and each of these 100 people follows an average of 100 people. Without deduplication, these followers follow 10,000 people, and then big data will perform deduplication calculations on these 10,000 people. , the one that appears the most frequently and is not followed by user A will appear at the top of the list, and so on for the following positions.
In other words, if among the 10,000 people followed by these 100 people, Li Mu appears the most frequently, reaching 80 times, and A happens to not follow Li Mu, then in the "Your friends are also following" list of user A, Li Mu appears will be ranked first.
The algorithm itself is not announced to the public, so the rules themselves are not transparent. Li Mu can put Schwarzenegger in this column for specific users to attract users to actively follow him.
(End of chapter)