Tencent owns 3 of the world’s 5 biggest social networks

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The number of internet users on Earth recently surpassed three billion, and nearly half of them – 1.35 billion – are on Facebook, according to social media agency WeAreSocial. That’s roughly equal to the entire population of China.

Ironically, very few of Facebook’s users actually live in China, where the government has blocked the behemoth social network for several years. Tencent reigns supreme instead, taking up three of the top five spots for social platforms with the most monthly active users in the world.

WeChat, while it attracts the brightest spotlight from the west, actually has about half the users as its older PC-born brother, QQ Messenger. QQ has racked up 829 million users, while its Facebook-y MySpace-esque spinoff Qzone boasts an impressive 645 million.

Source: www.techinasia.com

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