A war between China's largest IT companies

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"According to the companies' websites, the number of active QQ users in China has reached 1 billion, while Qihoo 360 also claims to have had at least 300 million users prior to June 2010."

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From my point of view, this war is thrilling but at a cost of ignoring the nearly 1 billion users' feelings, what I am sure at this point is this must be the worst example of competitions between IT companies ever!

There must be a mistranslation in the article or embellishment on the part of the involved companies. How can QQ have a billion active users? When last I saw, there were only 350M internet users in China. Is it possible that the majority of their userbase is extranational? Or are they counting total accounts created?

my source tells me the qq user base is around 600M

that's because very often a person has more than one QQ for different usages(working or personal), and a lot companies use QQ as a tool, aside from tel, for their customer service, actually the largest social network in China did not rest in renren but QQ

so the difference on numbers of users between the two companies is not that big considering only one 360 safe can be run on a PC while it's normal to run several QQ accounts at the same time on PCs or other devices like cellphones and tablets, but their implications are undoubtedly tremendous

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