180: Section 180

Ma Liuyun immediately took out his phone to check the news published on WeChat, and soon, he found that WeChat had indeed announced its latest daily active user information.

"One hundred million."

"There's still one hundred million."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible."

Ma Liuyun kept shaking his head as he looked at the numbers on his phone.

His eyes were filled with complete disbelief.

The expressions of the other people in the room were also not very good.

"Could it be that those young user groups attracted by WeChat's social functions haven't returned to QQ?"

Ma Liuyun's puzzled voice also rang out.

"But that shouldn't be."

"If they haven't returned to QQ, then why did QQ's daily active user count increase by fifty million in these five days, even more than before?"

"If these young user groups stayed on WeChat, then QQ's daily active users absolutely couldn't have increased this much now."

After Ma Liuyun finished speaking, Zheng Haidi, who was beside him, also frowned and said,

"Could it be..."

Zheng Haidi took a deep breath.

"It's true that quite a few young users have returned to QQ, but not many of them uninstalled WeChat, which is why WeChat's daily active users haven't decreased that much?"

No sooner had Zheng Haidi finished speaking than Ma Liuyun, who was beside him, immediately shook his head and said,

"Impossible."

"WeChat and QQ now have almost no significant differences."

"QQ already has WeChat's voice chat and social function attributes, so QQ users have no reason to stay on WeChat."

"Unless WeChat has something else that can attract them."

After Ma Liuyun finished speaking, Li Wenqiu frowned.

"The remaining differences between WeChat and QQ should be the simplicity of registration, being able to log in directly with a phone number."

"Oh, and also WeChat's friend adding based on the phone's contacts."

"But these can't attract young users."

"Most young people now primarily use QQ for communication, and only make direct calls for urgent matters."

"WeChat's functions simply can't retain them."

After Li Wenqiu finished speaking, the entire conference room fell into silence once again.

Everyone was unable to understand why WeChat's daily active users only dropped from one hundred thirty million to one hundred million after QQ launched its social functions.

"The current differences between WeChat and QQ are indeed not enough to retain young user groups."

At this moment, Ma Liuyun's voice suddenly rang out.

He seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and his face instantly turned very pale.

Listening to his voice, everyone else's eyes turned to him.

After taking a deep breath, Ma Liuyun continued,

"But what if..."

"Most of WeChat's users..."

Ma Liuyun paused.

"Have never been the young user group we thought they were?"

Upon hearing this, everyone present was stunned for a moment, and most people didn't immediately understand Ma Liuyun's meaning.

"How could they not be young user groups?"

"Ninety percent of users who use chat software are just young people."

"How could there be over one hundred million of others...."

Before he could finish speaking, Ma Liuyun suddenly thought of something, and his expression changed drastically.

He quickly looked at Li Wenqiu.

"Didn't you just say that..."

"WeChat's publicity and promotion in the older user market are still ongoing!"

As Ma Liuyun's words rang out, everyone's expressions in the room changed.

Because they finally understood the meaning of Ma Liuyun's words just now.

Li Wenqiu also swallowed.

"Yes."

"Before WeChat announced its latest daily active users, we were discussing this issue."

"At that time, we couldn't understand why WeChat's publicity in the older user market was still continuing."

Originally, just now, the people at Penguin had already started to wonder about WeChat's actions... but because the numbers for WeChat's latest daily active users were too shocking, they were temporarily unable to react.

And after Li Wenqiu finished speaking, everyone's expressions in the room became even more somber.

"Perhaps,"

Ma Liuyun slowly began.

"This is the answer."

"WeChat's true purpose and direction have always been the older user market!"

"It's just that..."

"We were previously distracted by the social functions WeChat launched."

"All of our internal thoughts and judgments were probably anticipated by Wang Mo."

"He had long guessed that we would try to be clever."

At these words, the entire room fell silent again.

"We fell into Wang Mo's trap again?"

"Is he really that terrifying?"

Li Wenqiu couldn't help but murmur.

But at this moment, Ma Liuyun still couldn't quite believe it.

"But this is completely impossible."

"Previously, QQ also carried out extensive publicity and promotion in the older market, but the results were minimal."

"For older users, they don't have the habit of using chat software."

"This WeChat, which doesn't have many differences from QQ now, how could it attract these older users to use chat software?"

After Ma Liuyun finished speaking, Ma Liuyun, who was beside him, thought for a moment.

"When we promoted QQ before, we didn't have voice chat functionality."

"And Li Wenqiu also said just now that the current differences between WeChat and QQ are only the simplicity of being able to log in directly with a phone number, and the friend network based on the phone's contacts."

"These two functions, for young people, might indeed not have much appeal."

"But thinking about it, these functions are very much in line with the usage habits of older users."

"What's more, WeChat integrated very simple voice chat and voice-to-text functions from the very beginning."

Upon hearing this, Ma Liuyun's expression changed again.

"After all this time..."