Line WeChat exceeded 70 million users worldwide

According to foreign media reports, as of October 25, 2012, the number of registered users of the mobile communication application line of NHN Japan has exceeded 70 million in the world, of which, the number of domestic users in Japan exceeded 32 million.

Line was launched on June 23, 2011. The parent company behind it is NHN Japan, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NHN, the largest internet company in Korea, and is currently popular in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand. The number of its global users has maintained a rapid growth since breaking through 10 million in December 2011. In July, the number of global users exceeded 50 million, surpassing 60 million in September, and the current speed increases by 5 million in 3 weeks.

Compared with many communication applications, Line offers a lot of similar functions, send messages, send pictures, send video, send voice messages and real-time voice calls, but in this competitive communication application market, Line with its differentiated product features Earned a place and even began to move from one application to a platform.

In early April of this year, NHN released a Line PC/Mac client and web services for tablet PCs, expanding the reach of Line to smartphones. NHN stated that the new application has helped Line downloads grow substantially.

Line's goal is to reach 100 million registered users worldwide in 2012. To achieve this goal, Line hopes to expand overseas users, and North America and China have become its key development goals. In China, WeChat has become the most popular social tool. As early as mid-September, we launched WeChat for only 14 months, and the number of registered users has exceeded 200 million.