WeChat surpassed QQ, but it’s also leading to a resurgence among young people
More and more products of the early internet are coming to an end. The same is true in China, too, where Tencent says it will shut down the web version of QQ on the first day of 2019.
QQ, Tencent's first messaging service, was one of the first social products Chinese internet users got their hands on. The now ubiquitous WeChat was actually first based on the QQ network.