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This week saw a multitude of messaging app announcements. First was WeChat’s Open Class PRO featuring a four-hour speech from Allen Zhang. Then, on the same day, Bytedance announced their own messaging app (Duoshan 多闪), what appears to be a clone of Snapchat, and Bullet Messenger announced their upgrade and rebrand to Liaotianbao (聊天宝). All three events, and the recent update to WeChat 7.0, raise interesting questions about the messaging market, WeChat’s primacy, and the ascendancy of Bytedance.
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- WECHAT FOUNDER’S 4 HOUR TALK: FULL NOTES
- WeChat pins future on Chinese users’ growing penchant for video, photo
- Bytedance takes on WeChat with new video messaging app
- Bullet Messenger creators developing new messaging app
- WeChat blocks three social networking challengers within one day
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