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Re:China is challenging the idea that censorship thwarts onl... by rmah on Thursday July 21, 2016 @09:09AM (#12136571)
"Is anyone using WeChat or Weibo outside mainland China?"

I don't know about Weibo, but WeChat is available in 200 nations and 20 languages. Over 70 mil people use WeChat outside of China. They seem strongest in south and south-east asia. Wechat penetration into the mobile markets are: Malaysia 38%, India 22%, Philipines 19%, etc. My understanding is that they have aggressive inititatives underway in Brazil and South Africa.

So, not super-awesome, but respectable.

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Re:China is challenging the idea that censorship thwarts onl... by mikeash on Thursday July 21, 2016 @10:35AM (#12137104)
In addition to that, there are lots of Chinese people outside China, and in my experience they all use WeChat. They will also attempt, with varying degrees of success, to get the non-Chinese people they communicate with to use it.
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Re:China is challenging the idea that censorship thwarts onl... by dajohnson89 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @09:26AM (#12136671)
Most people I know in South America use WeChat.

Edit: That's incorrect. I was thinking of WhatsApp.

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Re:China is challenging the idea that censorship thwarts onl... by sua_mae on Thursday July 21, 2016 @12:25PM (#12137905)
I'm from Brazil and nobody I know uses WeChat. Most never heard of.
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Re:China is challenging the idea that censorship thwarts onl... by _jgdh on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:40PM (#12139022)
22% of Indian mobile users use WeChat? I'd like a citation for that, since in my experience less than a percentage use anything other than Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger.
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Re:China is challenging the idea that censorship thwarts onl... by pyre on Thursday July 21, 2016 @07:31PM (#12140775)
They do not need to be evenly distributed across the country. It could be a specific regional area. The stat could also just mean "installed and is used." It's possible that there are a lot of Indians that use it to communicated with business partners / etc in China.
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