WeChat, WeChat App, WeChat Messenger

The growth in popularity of messaging apps is staggering. This growth can be seen by looking at a number of these applications and their increasing number of users.

China-based Tencent’s WeChat app is no exception. The application has nearly 400 million users worldwide, and has told TechinAsia that it has exceeded 50 million users outside its home country, 10 million more than a month and a half ago. Out of its nearly 400 million users, 195 million of these users are active on WeChat each month.

Tencent says that this growth in popularity is fueled by iTunes, Android, and Windows Phone app stores in Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and the Philippines, with the app being heavily marketed in the southeast Asia countries.

While this is indeed showing a huge jump in popularity, WeChat has a long road ahead of it if it hopes to overtake WhatsApp Messenger‘s 200 million active users worldwide. Even Japan-created LINE has 150 million registered users.

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By Josh Robert Nay

Josh Robert Nay is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TruTower. He has worked in the telecommunications industry since 2003 and specializes in GSM based technology. He also uses (too many) VoIP apps and is a long-time user of BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Phone. He adores anything having to do with space exploration and writing. In addition to the links below, he can be found on LinkedIn and can also be found on his website at http://www.joshrobertnay.com.