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169: Section 169Listening to Wang Mo, Zhang Fan sighed softly.

“Oh, by the way, how many daily active users does our WeChat have now?”

Since Wang Mo was responsible for WeChat, Zhang Fan was not clear about some of WeChat’s specific data.

And Wang Mo also said,

“Just over four million.”

Hearing this number, Zhang Fan was a little surprised.

“That many, actually.”

“I didn’t expect that the market direction you initially decided on, Boss, was not wrong; it really attracted so many middle-aged and elderly users.”

Zhang Fan was also very clear that this number was already quite exaggerated for a chat software.

Hearing this.

Wang Mo smiled and shook his head.

“Actually, among these four million users, half are young people.”

After Wang Mo finished speaking, Zhang Fan was stunned for a moment.

“That shouldn’t be right. The advertisements WeChat placed on Douyin, weren’t their target audience all middle-aged and elderly people?”

“How could there be so many young users?”

Wang Mo smiled.

“This is the potential of WeChat’s real social network.”

“When a middle-aged or elderly person discovers the convenience of WeChat and becomes a WeChat user, the first thing he will do is send WeChat to the young people in his family, hoping they can use WeChat to contact him.”

“After all, WeChat’s address book friends are basically relatives and true friends. This real social network is something QQ doesn’t have, and even Penguin Group itself hasn’t discovered that WeChat’s most threatening aspect to QQ is this real social network brought by address book friends.”

“It is precisely because of this close connection with the real social network that many middle-aged and elderly users quickly form a network of relatives and friends among themselves, and their younger generations will naturally be drawn into it.”

“On the surface.”

“WeChat did not promote to the young demographic before, but in reality, it actually had this effect.”

Listening to Wang Mo’s explanation.

Zhang Fan nodded, appearing to understand but not fully.

“I see.”

“However, now that QQ also has voice chat, it will definitely affect our user growth rate.”

“And as the number of users continues to increase, QQ will quickly discover the market direction we are targeting.”

“What should we do next? Are we still giving up on the youth market?”

After Zhang Fan finished speaking, Wang Mo pondered for a moment.

“Penguin Group is definitely keeping a constant eye on us now.”

“Any major move we make will attract Penguin Group’s attention.”

“And to truly catch up with QQ, WeChat’s primary user base in the early stages must be middle-aged and elderly users.”

“We must first segment WeChat’s and QQ’s user bases. Only when our user numbers and stickiness reach a certain level can we slowly snatch the remaining users from QQ.”

“However, now we have been silent for too long, and Penguin Group must be suspicious. We must make a move, otherwise Penguin Group will quickly discover our true purpose and our promotional direction.”

Speaking of this.

Wang Mo paused, taking a deep breath.

“So.”

“Since Penguin Group is now extremely focused on our next move.”

“Then our next move will be a big one, to really liven things up.”

“I want to see what Penguin Group’s reaction will be if they discover that WeChat has started targeting QQ’s young users.”

Hearing this, a hint of excitement appeared in Zhang Fan’s eyes.

“Then what should we do?”

Wang Mo said,

“We can have WeChat launch its first major update.”

“Since everyone wants to see if WeChat is hiding any new features.”

“Then we.”

“Will really show it to them.”

Just one day later.

Many WeChat users suddenly received an update notification.

When they clicked into the update content description.

They could only see a few short sentences.

“In this update, WeChat will gradually add social features such as Shake, Drifting Bottle, and Nearby!”

Chapter 110: Drifting Bottle and Other Features Go Online, New Social Methods!

Yan Country.

In a residential building in an old neighborhood in a small southern city.

Because the location is close to the subway station, and there is an internet industrial park not far away, many migrant workers live in this neighborhood.

And the current time.

It was already one in the morning.

In a room in a certain part of the neighborhood, there was still a faint light flickering.

A girl named Xiaoyue was lying on the bed, with many tear stains at the corners of her eyes.

Since she had to work tomorrow, she should have been resting at this time.

But the grievances she had suffered at work these past few days made her unable to sleep at all.

Working alone far from home, the hardships involved were indeed incomprehensible to others.

She really wanted to find someone to confide in, but in the lonely city, there was no place where she could speak.

Looking at the moon outside the window, Xiaoyue took out her phone, opened WeChat, and thought about whether to make a voice call to her parents.

But after a moment of thought, she gave up the idea.

If she really called back to complain, she would probably only cause her family to worry unnecessarily.

A few days ago.

It was also her parents who called her and told her to download WeChat to keep in touch with the family often, but after all, it was about reporting good news and not bad news, how could she call back at this time?

Just as Xiaoyue was about to put down her phone, she suddenly saw a newly launched feature on WeChat.

Originally, all her friends on WeChat were family members, so she rarely used WeChat except to contact her family.

The automatic phone update a few hours ago also made her not notice the new features that appeared on WeChat.

“What are Shake and Drifting Bottle?”

“The Nearby feature is not yet available.”

Looking at the words on her phone, Xiaoyue frowned, then clicked into the Drifting Bottle feature.

The next second.

A detailed introduction to this feature appeared before her.

“Put what you want to say into a Drifting Bottle, then throw it out. If someone else picks up the Drifting Bottle, they can leave you a message and reply.”

Looking at the feature description on her phone, Xiaoyue was stunned for a moment.

She had indeed heard of things like Drifting Bottle, and had seen them in some movies.

It was about writing some words on a note, putting them in a bottle, and then throwing it into the ocean or a lake.

How did this feature appear on a phone?

Thinking of this.

She also prepared to try WeChat’s Drifting Bottle, but she quickly thought that even if she wrote a Drifting Bottle and threw it out now, no one would likely pick it up in a short time, after all, it was already one in the morning.

However, even though she thought this internally.

She still wrote down some of the grievances she had suffered at work these past few days on a note, put it into a Drifting Bottle, and threw it out.

Although there might not be a reply, she felt much better after speaking these words.

Then.

She tried clicking the button to pick up a Drifting Bottle, to see if she could pick up someone else’s words.