According to a report Tencent published a week ago, its QZone’s monthly active users have achieved over 200 million, claiming to be the biggest social networking site in the world (Facebook: 175 million monthly active users).
What is Qzone? Wiki provides a good description:
Qzone is an individual personality’s space, which is created by Tencent in 2005. It has the functions of Blog, and it became popular rapidly all over the world since its inception.
In Qzone, people can write diary, send favorite photos and pictures, listen to the beautiful songs, express their mood etc. to show themselves by many methods. Beside, customers can set the background of Qzone and accessories based on their own favorite so that every Qzone have the unique characters.
Qzone also provides advanced function that the customers who are good at creating web page can make their Qzone through editing a variety of code. Qzone combines the professional dynamic functions of blog, album, music player, magic rattan and interaction. Furthermore, you can stick you own purikura there, and it provide variety of accouterment as well, such as skin, floatages, ornaments, which is very convenient for you to create you own style of Qzone. However, the most service of Qzone are not free, only after people buying the “Canary Diamond” (10 Yuan per Month) then could use every service without paying money again.
The way Qzone makes money is through virtual currency, which is quite popular. Many girls I know got addicted to this. You can refer here or here for more information about the latest report.
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