
The milestone was marked by “Pony Ma, CEO”. WeChat was launched on January 21, 2011 and took over a year to reach 100 million users last March and reached 200 million last September.
Most of new accounts came from India and Southeast Asia.
WeChat is now a fasting growing social networking, whose application was developed by Tencent, with more than 300 million user accounts worldwide.
WeChat provides multimedia communication flexibility and convenience with text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, video/voice call, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, photo/video sharing, location sharing, and contact information exchange.
WeChat also supports social networking via shared streaming content feeds and location-based social plug-ins ('Shake', 'Look Around', and 'Drift Bottle') to chat with and befriend local and international WeChat users.
It’s available for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Symbian platforms with multi-languages support.