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170: Section 170Originally, she didn’t have much hope for Drifting Bottle.

But she hadn’t expected it.

The moment she tapped it, she fished out a Drifting Bottle someone else had thrown out.

“I like a girl, should I confess or not?”

Looking at the message in the Drifting Bottle, she smiled and then replied,

“When you’re considering whether or not to do something, just do it.”

After sending her reply, she continued to fish out other people’s Drifting Bottles.

Soon.

More people’s messages were retrieved by her.

“What should I do if I have too much homework?”

“What is this feature? Can what I write really be seen by you all?”

“Interesting, they actually embedded the Drifting Bottle feature into the phone.”

“Long night, no desire to sleep, throwing a bottle to pass the time.”

Xiaoyue mostly replied to these retrieved messages.

Just as she finished replying to the last message and was about to go to sleep.

Her phone suddenly vibrated.

Looking at the pop-up message, Xiaoyue was stunned.

Because the message showed that someone had picked up a Drifting Bottle she had thrown out and replied to it.

One must know, it was already one in the morning.

She had originally thought that someone would pick up her Drifting Bottle at least tomorrow, but she hadn’t expected it so soon.

The next second.

She immediately opened the reply.

And this stranger, whose whereabouts were unknown, was also comforting her.

“Life isn’t always like this, everything will get better…”

The stranger wrote a long string of words to comfort her, and looking at the messages on her phone, Xiaoyue’s eyes couldn’t help but well up.

She hadn’t expected it.

A stranger, whose identity and location she didn’t even know, could give her so much comfort.

And this.

Was merely a new feature of a chat software that had just been launched.

The existence of Drifting Bottle not only provided many people with an outlet for their emotions but also offered a brand new way of socializing.

Furthermore, this completely anonymous chat method allowed many people to cast aside their inhibitions.

They could freely express their inner thoughts.

Therefore, after WeChat launched this update at 8 PM, the number of times Drifting Bottle was used exceeded hundreds of thousands in a short period.

There were also quite a few users like Xiaoyue who discovered the WeChat update in the early morning and then threw out a Drifting Bottle.

Although outside now.

Many people are still unaware of this WeChat update.

But for many WeChat users, this feature indeed gave them another reason to use WeChat.

Normally.

Most WeChat users basically only opened WeChat when contacting family members.

But the appearance of this feature significantly increased the time they spent using WeChat.

And Drifting Bottle.

Is only one of the three features updated by WeChat.

Aside from the Nearby feature, which is temporarily unlocked.

The Shake feature’s appeal to users even far exceeds that of Drifting Bottle.

After these two features were launched.

The average daily usage time of WeChat’s four million active users basically increased by about half an hour.

Because these two features are not just about simply communicating with strangers.

They can also establish closer friendships with strangers.

Except for Drifting Bottle, which cannot directly add friends and requires leaving one’s WeChat ID in the message.

The Shake feature, on the other hand, allows for one-click friend adding.

Therefore.

By 10 AM the next day.

The usage count of Shake and Drifting Bottle had already exceeded one million.

This data was somewhat unexpected even for Junzi Group.

Although these two features haven’t gone viral yet.

All employees in the Weixin Department are aware that it’s only a matter of time before WeChat’s new social features become hugely popular.

And after these two features were launched.

In the following few days, they gradually began to penetrate most of WeChat’s young user base.

This kind of social interaction, which had never appeared before.

Had a huge appeal to them.

However.

Due to Penguin Group’s close attention to WeChat.

So on the second day after WeChat launched the two features, these two new social methods had already been noticed by Penguin.

Chapter 111: WeChat’s Contradictory Operation Plan, Penguin’s Thoughts

Penguin Group.

Inside a certain meeting room.

“CEO Ma, what exactly does this WeChat want to do? Why is their main publicity channel aimed at the middle-aged and elderly user groups?”

Ma Liuyun’s puzzled voice sounded from his seat.

Just a few hours ago.

They finally discovered that WeChat wasn’t doing nothing; it wasn’t that they weren’t doing any publicity.

Instead.

WeChat’s publicity had always been low-key, targeting the middle-aged and elderly demographic.

Although they didn’t know WeChat’s user count yet, this information still made them somewhat wary.

“According to common sense.”

“Most users who would use chat software should be young people who frequently go online.”

“Many middle-aged and elderly people, although they have smartphones, rarely use chat software.”

“Before.”

“Our QQ also did market promotion in this area to see if we could attract more user groups, but it ultimately failed.”

“These middle-aged and elderly user groups, their communication habit is to make phone calls; they don’t have the habit of using chat software. It’s too difficult to change their mindset. QQ failed before.”

Xiao Ma’s voice also rang out in the office.

“But this WeChat is still working in this direction now.”

“Don’t they know that QQ has already done this?”

Xiao Ma also found the information they discovered a few hours ago somewhat difficult to comprehend.

But even so.

This information still made them considerably wary.

After all, the current situation.

Is very similar to the initial stage when Honor of Kings was just launched.

When Honor of Kings was first launched, its main publicity market 553 was also among users who didn’t play mobile games. They didn’t pay attention at first, which is why they lost the initiative.

And now.