Tencent QQ is already a wildly popular instant messaging platform in China, with over 700 million active users.

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They can vote on Twitter and Facebook, and on the Chinese social media websites Sina Weibo and Tencent QQ.

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Its instant messaging service, Tencent QQ, has more than 600 million users.

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According to Tencent, whose services include instant messaging service QQ, microblogging site Tencent Weibo - which is similar to Twitter - and online games, WeChat has close to 300 million users.

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Some people have multiple microblog accounts: Tencent has its own QQ-branded Weibo service.

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Now Tencent has its own group-buying site, QQ Tuan.

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Tencent is well known in China for its instant messenger program QQ, with more than 600 million accounts.

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Tencent is a minority investor in VinaGame and has struck a deal to bring its QQ chat and casual games to VinaGame.

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He also found time to pay a call on Tencent, the Shenzhen-based Internet company that boasts over 700 million users of its QQ social-media platforms.

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Tencent has made inroads mostly in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America with its mobile QQ Browser, counting India and Indonesia as its biggest markets outside China.

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