Microsoft uses Twitter to promote IE9 to annoy Firefox developers

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Microsoft has recently purchased a "promoted tweet" ad on Twitter, which, through Twitter, searches for Firefox browsers, and what happens in search results is that Microsoft promotes IE9 's message in the first line, At the top of the search results is the Microsoft IE9 Browser promotion message.

Rouget, a technology promoter at the Mozilla Foundation, a Firefox browser developer, said it was incomprehensible and unthinkable to Microsoft. Paul Rouget A screenshot of the results of his search for Firefox via Twitter and said it was all true. Paul Rouget points out that other Twitter users are already finding out about this, so Microsoft should not pretend it doesn't exist, even though Microsoft soon dealt with the ad.

Mozilla has just launched the latest version of the Firefox 4.0 browser, Firefox 4.0 in 3 hours after the release of the download 1 million times, the equivalent of 135 downloads per second per minute 8,200 downloads. While Microsoft has launched its IE9 browser a week before March 14, the IE9 browser downloads 2.35 million times within 24 hours of release, and there is a gap between Firefox 4.0 download speed and Firefox 4.0 has received 4.7 million downloads in less than 24 hours after release.

Firefox 4.0 runs in Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux operating systems and supports more than 80 languages worldwide, with new features including new security and privacy settings, faster loading and JavaScript, support for WEBM video , WebGL 3D Display, 3D acceleration. The current Firefox browser's global user reach 400 million, but Microsoft IE browser is still the world's largest web browser products, its global market share of 56.77%, and Firefox browser's global market share of 21.74%.