A lot of people have been communicating with each other by Facebook and Email. However, do you know WECHAT? Wechat is a social media outlet which is easy to use.
Wechat was launched by Tencent, a China company, on January 21, 2011. It is a Kik software which can support S60v3, S60v5, S40, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Android and iPhone platform. Through smartphone clients, WeChat users can broadcast news and share words, photo/video as well as location. Especially, using "Shake", "Bottle" and “Look around” functions, people can make a group chat with voice or video between their friends. WeChat supports multiple languages, as well as wi-fi, 2G, 3G and 4G data network. The most of the programs functions of Wechat are free. (If you want to know more about WeChat, you can go to these links: http://tinyurl.com/z7qqlds; http://tinyurl.com/zle3zbq).
Up to now, WeChat user activity is high on the world because there are hundreds of millions of photos uploaded as well as hundreds of millions of comments every day. But, do you know who created WeChat? This guy is Xiaolong Zhang who will be introduced as the following.
Xiaolong Zhang—the father of WeChat
In 1994, Xiaolong Zhang graduated from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China with a master's degree of the telecommunication science. Since then, he started to engage in the software development in Guanzhou city of China. 17 years ago, Fox-mail was born in his hands. But, the maintenances of Fox-mail had let Xiaolong Zhang have overloads and not made money although he constantly improved the software and renew it. During the time, Xiaolong Zhang had been very anxiety about his career because people thought that he was like a tragedy character in China's free software developers. In his most difficult time, he even wanted to give up this job and came to work for a software corporation in the United State because there, a free software developer can also rely on advertising and donations to have an income which was tens of thousands of dollars or even more each month. Fortunately, in 2000, the first big break came in his life - Boda software company announced the acquisition of Fox-mail for 12 million RMB. At the same time, Xiaolong Zhang entered and served as vice President and CTO of Boda software company. Therefore, he became a domestic leading figure of the second generation of programmers. Then, as the Boda was purchased by Tencent company, Xiaolong Zhang continued to serve the Tencent company as a backbone technician of software development.
Entrepreneurship Idea
One day in December, 2011, he had a new idea to create a new social media by mean of the international net because he thought that people need to have a new simple way to communicate each other as developing science and technology. Therefore, “WeChat should be a way of the social life. It is very important to make the communication be simple and even more simple” , he said. However, a lot of people disagreed with his idea. They thought that Xiaolong Zhang was not more and more like a serious programmer, but a fool "masters" to sell the concepts. Anyway, he sent an email with this idea to his boss, Huateng Ma who was the president of Tencent company. Quickly, his boss sent back him an email to agree with his new idea and asked him to build up the project team of developing WeChat right away. On November 20, 2010, the project of Tencent WeChat was approved and Xiaolong Zhang was responsible for it.
In August 2012, Tencent company launched WeChat version 4.2. And since then, however, WeChat arise quickly. Now, Wechat has been involved in electric business, advertising, games, banks, and other fields and in the field of mobile Internet. It has not had a rival yet.
Success
In the awarded evaluation of Xiaolong Zhang, there are the following statements: three years ago, he successfully developed this epoch-making product – WeChat to create the mobile Internet market of China. In 2013, he continued to create the payment function of WeChat and had millions of users all over the world. He who advocates the technology is a natural perfectionism to let product constantly update iterations and user experience over and over until closing to the perfection. He made an Internet product for young and old people. He believes in that simple is beauty and advocates radical thinking. He is Xiaolong Zhang who is a WeChat developer, senior vice President of Tencent company.
At the end of 2012, Zhang was named the "2012 China innovation for technology" winner by the Wall Street Journal (Chinese version).
WeChat launched at the first time (2012), but Tensent Wechat has accumulated 200 million Wechat users in less than two years. In 2015, WeChat had more than 600 million users. Just a few days before, the active users given by Tencent WeChat had reached 271.9 million monthly in the worldwide social media market.
How to use Wechat?
If you want to know how to use WeChat, you can follow in the link: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-WeChat.
