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Kind of funny. WeChat is more taking over the world before ByteDance's phenomenal growth in the past 2 years. Now to say it's taking the world appears to show

• hero76 8y ago
  right they just released a clone of snapchat. Android client looks like a decompilation of snapchat app
  • yorwba 8y ago
    According to Wikipedia, WeChat was first released in January 2011, while Snapchat only came out in September 2011. I conclude that Snapchat is more likely to be a clone of WeChat than the other way around. Edit: To be clear, while I haven't used Snapchat, based on what I've heard about it I'd say that the two apps are nothing alike except for having some kind of chat functionality.
    • napoleond 8y ago
      Parent was not talking about WeChat: https://technode.com/2019/01/18/bytedances-snapchat-clone-isnt-wechat-killer-but-tencent-should-worry/ https://technode.com/2019/01/18/bytedances-snapchat-clone-is...
      • yorwba 8y ago
        Thanks for the clarification. I read the "just" as "only" instead of "this week" and also thought it referred to WeChat instead of Bytedance's new Duoshan, which I totally hadn't heard of before.