Number of active WeChat messenger accounts 2010-2018

Number of monthly active WeChat users from 2nd quarter 2010 to 1st quarter 2018 (in millions)

The data displays the number of Tencent's WeChat active accounts from the second quarter of 2010 to the first quarter of 2018. In the most recently reported quarter, Tencent's WeChat had 1,040 million monthly active users.

WeChat users – additional information First released in 2011, WeChat is a mobile messaging app developed by the Chinese company Tencent. In its home market of China, WeChat is marketed as Weixin and was rebranded as WeChat in 2012 for international audiences. As of the fourth quarter of 2016, WeChat had 889 million users, a significant increase from the previous year, when the messaging app had about 697 million users in the corresponding quarter.

Q2 '11 2.8
Q3 '11 14
Q4 '11 50
Q1 '12 100
Q2 '12 151
Q3 '12 209.6
Q4 '12 160.8
Q1 '13 194.4
Q2 '13 235.8
Q3 '13 336
Q4 '13 355
Q1 '14 396
Q2 '14 438
Q3 '14 468
Q4 '14 500
Q1 '15 549
Q2 '15 600
Q3 '15 650
Q4 '15 697
Q1 '16 762
Q2 '16 806
Q3 '16 846
Q4 '16 889
Q1 '17 938
Q2 '17 963
Q3 '17 980
Q4 '17 989
Q1 '18 1040