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“So your true objective was really just as simple as it appeared on the surface?”

After speaking, Pony Ma looked at the others.

“I don’t need speculative results; I need real data and information.”

“Go investigate immediately and see if the user base WeChat has retained is indeed the older demographic you speculated.”

“Three days.”

“I want the conclusion!”

While Penguin Group was still reeling from WeChat’s daily active user numbers, the outside world was equally shaken by WeChat’s latest public daily active user data, which vibrated the entire Yan Country internet!.

Chapter 119: Preparing to Launch Online Payments, WeChat’s Next Step!

After WeChat publicly announced its latest daily active users, this information immediately topped the trending searches.

It’s important to note that just five days prior, when QQ announced its upcoming social features, the external outlook for WeChat was almost entirely pessimistic. No one believed that WeChat could maintain its user numbers under such circumstances.

After all, that was QQ.

When QQ also launched social features, WeChat was almost incomparable to QQ.

So why, after five days, did WeChat still have so many daily active users?

Therefore, many users were shocked the moment they saw WeChat’s public daily active user numbers.

This number was quite unbelievable to them.

Within a short period, the Weibo post announcing WeChat’s daily active users attracted hundreds of thousands of comments.

“No way, how can WeChat still have so many daily active users?”

“Something’s not right. Many young people around me who used WeChat before have now gone back to using QQ. How did you retain so many users?”

“Interesting, interesting. WeChat must have made significant moves in places we didn’t notice. Now Penguin will finally take it seriously.”

“It suddenly occurred to me that while many young people aren’t using WeChat now, many elders in my family are WeChat users. Could WeChat’s daily active users all be them?”

“Could it be that Yan Country really has so many older chat software users?”

Regardless, WeChat’s achievement indeed surprised many people, especially many internet professionals.

In their view, when QQ launched social features, WeChat’s doom would essentially arrive.

This was also why they did not follow Wang Mo’s lead and choose to create a chat software.

Because QQ’s position in the Yan Country chat software field was simply too exaggerated; it was impossible for it to be shaken by anyone or any software.

Previously, WeChat’s ability to slowly develop and its user numbers to exceed 100 million, in the eyes of these internet professionals, was all because QQ had not yet made a move.

But no one expected that even with QQ launching social features, WeChat’s daily active user numbers could still remain above 100 million.

This, in their view, was also quite an unbelievable thing.

At the same time, after WeChat publicly announced its daily active users, inside Junzi Group’s WeChat Department, Zhang Fan pushed open Wang Mo’s office door and walked in.

“Boss,” Zhang Fan said, “why did you suddenly make WeChat’s daily active users public now? If we hadn’t done that, Penguin Group probably wouldn’t have discovered our objective so early, and we could have absorbed more older user groups.”

“Currently, among WeChat’s 100 million daily active users, 80 million are older users, and the remaining 20 million are younger relatives from the former’s social network.”

Listening to Zhang Fan’s words, Wang Mo smiled.

“Even if we do nothing, it would only delay Penguin’s discovery of our true objective by a few days.”

“When QQ launches social features, if we continue to promote WeChat on a large scale among the older user base, Penguin will definitely notice and then realize our true objective.”

“To prevent Penguin from noticing, we can only slow down large-scale promotions and revert to the previous small-scale ones.”

“But in that case, WeChat’s user growth will become very, very slow.”

“What’s more,” Wang Mo took a deep breath and slowly looked at Zhang Fan, “the biggest reason I publicly announced WeChat’s daily active users at this time is because WeChat’s daily active users among older users have already reached their limit.”

Wang Mo paused.

“There are only so many older users interested in the internet and new things.”

“They naturally enjoy trying many novel things and are willing to accept new things.”

“If QQ had changed to a chat software similar to WeChat earlier, then these people would probably have become QQ users long ago.”

“The remaining older users with smartphones currently have little interest in chat software and no compelling reason to use it.”

Listening to Wang Mo’s words, Zhang Fan nodded, seemingly understanding.

“Boss, do you mean that WeChat’s user numbers have already reached their limit?”

“Young users won’t switch to WeChat because QQ exists, and the number of older users has also reached its ceiling.”

“It seems that these 100 million are WeChat’s final achievement.”

Zhang Fan leaned back and sat on the sofa in Wang Mo’s office.

“But this number is actually very good.”

“Under the behemoth that is QQ, the fact that we can still retain 100 million users is already a miracle.”

“Before this, probably no one would have thought that WeChat could truly establish itself in the chat domain.”

Listening to Zhang Fan’s words, Wang Mo suddenly smiled.

He looked up at Zhang Fan.

“Who said WeChat’s user numbers have already reached their limit?”

Hearing this, Zhang Fan was stunned.

“Didn’t you just say that, Boss?”

“You said the number of older users interested in the internet and new things has reached its limit, and the remaining young user base will all stay with QQ.”