QQ on the other hand has a staggering 800 million monthly active users, which is 200 million fewer than its sibling WeChat. In conservative countries like India, teenagers escaped Facebook and flocked to Instagram because older users like their parents and relatives hopped onto the platform. With more than 1 billion monthly active users, today’s WeChat lets people chat, pay bills, play games, shop, and access government services without ever leaving the app.
The now ubiquitous WeChat was actually first based on the QQ network. How Did WeChat Contribute To This Demise? Tencent refused to comment on the closure. “It does not have many users anymore,” the employee said. However, a source from the company mentioned that the closure is due to the end of the product’s lifecycle. Users are requested to download one of QQ’s apps. The company said the move comes as a result of the restructuring of its businesses. Why Is Tencent shutting down the web version of QQ?įrom Jan 1st QQ users will be required to utilize the platform’s mobile and desktop apps to communicate. As a matter of fact, the platform is still alive – but mostly on teenagers’ smartphones. But to be clear, it’s not the death of QQ. “That’s what got me through high school computer classes,” one user says on Weibo. QQ users in China are probably experiencing the same levels of nostalgia that the 90’s kids of the western social media world are going to witness in 2019. Tencent to shut down QQ’s Web Version: In the west, netizens will be mourning the death of Yahoo messenger, one of the earliest messengers in existence since the 1990’s that will shut down in 2019 simply because it couldn’t keep up with modern day social messaging. Tencent Will No Longer Continue QQ’s Web Services
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