VKontakte, for huge money
bought the domain
vk.com , began to finally move to the West - apparently, based on those Facebook users who liked the old interface, timing the start of the three-year anniversary of the resource.
True, Durov started and the team is somehow crooked - deciding to attract domestic users to foreign countries,
promising five hundred of the best hunters on iPod Nano. The condition that it is necessary to attract users from abroad, and not from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan or Belarus, is emphasized by the hotel:

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IPod, no doubt, the toy is good (finally a radio appeared there!). But how many, interestingly, do they want to get users from this?
Even if we assume that the winners of the competition will bring with them a hundred heads, the total will be no more than 50,000 registrations - a drop in the ocean. (You can, of course, think otherwise - let's say a million users will bring five people each or ten million people one by one, but let's be realistic.)
One gets the feeling that the contactors simply have not figured out yet how to move in the non-Russian part of the Network, and so far they have decided to limit themselves to imitating vigorous activity.
It turned out stupid - for me, for example, as a Russian-speaking user, the appeal in the tone “Russian users are no longer interesting for us, give us foreigners or go ahead”, to put it mildly, it is unpleasant.
Actually, the world Internet, which this action is aimed at, will not even notice it.
In total, they have a sad celebration of something like a birthday party - success seems to be indisputable in runet, but what next?
ZY And it’s not so difficult to win an iPod - if you have relatives or friends in Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Armenia, and so on - it should be rolled out according to formal criteria, although this is clearly not what VKontakte expects :)