WeChat reaches one billion user milestone

WeChat, China’s most popular social media platform, has passed the one billion monthly active user mark.  
The milestone, which was achieved over the Chinese New Year holiday in February, was revealed by Tencent chief executive Pony Ma in China’s parliament this week.
WeChat's global monthly active users reached 938 million in the first quarter of 2017, which was a 23% increase year-on-year.  In November last year, the app announced its daily active users had reac