Chinese post-90s are the most active QQ users, accounting for 39% of total users, followed by post-80s and post-00s according to Tencent on Tencent’s Open Day in October 2014.
During period from 4 August to 10 August, Tencent QQ’s daily user coverage exceeded 220.75 million, accounting for 63.5%, ranking the top among China online instant messengers, and effective time on Tencent QQ went up to 759.33 million hours, accounting for 90.7% of total effective time in China instant messengers market.
Tencent QQ got into guinness world record for having the most number of simultaneous online users on an instant messaging platform on 3rd July, 2014.
QQ is making efforts to be featured with young design, colorful characters and social diversity. Tencent is establishing online community based on common interest on mobile QQ. According to research of Tencent and EnfoDesk, 40.89% of Chinese post-90s would like to make friends with ones who have common interest through online social media.
Smart device MAU of QQ was 542 million, more than WeChat which was 468 million in Q3 2014. This is a bit surprising considering the growth rate of QQ has been slowed down.
Also read: The Latest Stats on QQ and Wechat in Q3 2014