WeChat is a free instant messaging service application launched on January 21, 2011.
It has been 11 years since now. It is affiliated to Tencent and was created by the product team of Tencent Guangzhou R&D Center led by Zhang Xiaolong. As of the second quarter of 2016, WeChat has covered more than 94% of the country. of smart phones, the number of monthly active users has reached 806 million, and the users cover more than 200 countries in the world.
WeChat is an Internet project that Tencent started planning to launch in October 2010. Finally, Tencent President Ma Huateng determined that the name of the software was WeChat. On January 17, 2011, he applied for the registration of the WeChat trademark and targeted it. iPhone users released the 1.0 beta version, and WeChat users exceeded 50 million by the end of the year. As of 2022, WeChat will update new content every year.
The development history of WeChat:
Late at night on January 15, 2013, Tencent’s WeChat team announced on Weibo that the number of WeChat users exceeded 300 million, becoming the world’s largest number of downloads and users communication software. Its influence extends to mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, overseas Chinese gathering places and a small number of Westerners. On April 11, 2013, Tencent WeChat team officially released a statement to some users through WeChat. He claimed that the rumors circulating on the Internet that "WeChat wants to charge users" are malicious rumors, while emphasizing that WeChat will never charge users.
On January 11, 2016, Zhang Xiaolong, the father of WeChat, made his first public appearance in many years and explained the four major values ??of WeChat. Zhang Xiaolong pointed out that more and more products are produced through public accounts because the costs of development, user acquisition and dissemination are lower here. The split service account did not provide better services, so WeChat is internally studying a new form called WeChat mini program.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-WeChat