WhatsApp rival WeChat is narrowing the gap as it passes 355 million monthly active users

With 450 million active users each month and 1 million new sign-ups per day, WhatsApp is indeed the world’s most popular messaging app. However, figures revealed today show that WeChat is catching up. WeChat’s parent company, Tencent, released its earnings report today revealing that the combined monthly active users of WeChat and Weixin (the version available in China) reached 355 million as of end 2013, an increase of 121 percent year-on-year and up six percent quarter-on-quarter. No doubt WeChat dominates in China, and as Tencent didn’t release a breakdown of the monthly active users according to region, there’s no certainty...



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