Chinese application WeChat messaging reaches 1 billion users

The WeChat, messaging application of Chinese internet giant Tencent, overcame the barrier of 1 billion users, informed the Chief Executive of the group, Pony Ma, on last Monday, 5, at night. The application for smartphones is omnipresent in China and, in addition to the messaging service, offers information channel and other content, social network, online sales platform and electronic payment system. "The number of monthly active users WeChat in the world topped the 1 billion mark decisive," said the ceo of Tencent Pony Ma, in a video released by the social networks. The Tencent has stated that he was referring to the "monthly active user accounts". In this way, it seems to take into account the fact that a user can create multiple accounts. At the end of September last year, the number of accounts in the WeChat era of 980 million, with a high annual rate of 16 percent, according to the latest available results of the group. Facebook already has announced the Messenger messaging service surpassed 1.3 billion monthly active users. Most users of WeChat is in mainland China. The Tencent wants to increase your outdoor use, especially in the expatriate Chinese. But internationalization is complicated due to the censorship of the Chinese authorities about the application and the controversies by WeChat to personal data treatment. There is also a practical drawback: WeChat's conversations are stored only in the user's mobile phone and can be lost if the device goes away.