WeChat’s parent company, Tencent, announced at a Two Sessions briefing in Beijing that the popular messaging and social media app WeChat has reached 1 billion accounts thanks to the spike in social media activity and messaging during this past Chinese New Year.
WeChat, is of course, China’s most popular messaging app which offers some social media features, the ability to order food, hail a car, access bank services, file a police report, and even offers VoIP calling rates to landlines. The app has seen growth in Southeast Asia, the EU, and the United States, especially among Chinese…