Sina Weibo Follow Tencent Weixin’s Footstep to Take Over QR Code Entry Point

How PC generate a QR Code and use it

How PC generate a QR Code and use it

QR Code is as popular in China as it is in the rest of the world. Ma Huateng, CEO of Tencent, just announced they would promote QR Code at Internet Conference.

On Sep 24th, Sina officially launched their QR Code product which will offer variety of functional services to users. Users can popularize themselves by sharing their own unique QR Code easily or scan others’ QR Code to follow more friends online.

According to reports, Weibo QR Code mainly support three functional service: visiting personal profile, triggering appointed pages, and directly opening posting window with ready-made contents. In addition, Sina Weibo QR Code support different clients, either desktop PC or mobile phone can generate and use their exclusive QR Code.

However, some digital professionals point out QR Code for Sina Weibo isn’t quite useful as such functions already exist on  Tencent Wechat (Weixin).

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