Tencent QQ: Former Chinese Chatting Champion While WeChat has taken over and become the market leader, QQ is still a popular messaging platform in China. This Chineses messaging app remains most popular with younger users, who feel safe from the prying eyes of their parents on the platform.

Do people still use QQ in China?

As a matter of fact, QQ is still alive… but mostly on teenagers smartphones. QQ has a staggering 800 million monthly active users, 200 million fewer than its sibling WeChat. But ironically, WeChats dominance has given QQ a new life: Teenagers have flocked to QQ because their parents and relatives are all on WeChat.

Who owns TikTok USA?

On 9 November 2017, TikToks parent company, ByteDance, spent up to U.S.$1 billion to purchase musical.ly, a startup headquartered in Shanghai with an overseas office in Santa Monica, California, U.S. Musical.ly was a social media video platform that allowed users to create short lip-sync and comedy videos, initially