Comment on WeChat Has Had 396M Monthly Active Users and 5.8M Public Accounts by China Orders Real-name Registration for Public Accounts on Mobile Messaging Apps. Tencent Stock Fell 3% Accordingly | TechNode

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WeChat monthly active users reached 396 million in more than 200 countries and regions as of this month (July 2014), WeChat disclosed yesterday at an event. Public accounts, service accounts and subscription accounts, have reached 5.8 million since the public account system was launched in August 2012, with 15,000 added daily. It is estimated there are more than 10, 000 developers and 10, 000 app development companies are developing applications for WeChat public accounts — A handful of APIs, for functions such as speech recognition, are available for developers to build sophisticated features for public accounts. Since the first API was released in May 2012, 67,000 applications, including those for mobile payments, have been developed on top of WeChat public accounts. More APIs for speech recognition, image recognition, location positioning, etc.