{"id":136204,"date":"2019-05-21T01:55:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=245320"},"modified":"2019-05-21T01:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:55:19","slug":"bytedance-aims-to-spark-interest-with-messaging-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/21\/bytedance-aims-to-spark-interest-with-messaging-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Bytedance aims to spark interest with messaging move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tBytedance, the company behind popular short-form video app TikTok, debuted a new messaging service in what appeared to be another bid to woo social media users away from rival Tencent\u2019s WeChat platform.<\/p>\n<p>Available on iOS and Android, Feiliao offers standard chat and calling features complete with a special effects camera and stickers, and a payments function. Notably, it also comes with a strong focus on forums, encouraging users to join chat groups aligned with their interests and hobbies as a way to get to know more people.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to TechCrunch, the company said it hopes Feiliao \u201cwill connect people of the same interests, making people\u2019s life more diverse and interesting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The release comes as Bytedance looks to grow its line of social media apps and recreate the success of TikTok, which has remained the most-downloaded app in Apple\u2019s App Store for five consecutive quarters [1].<\/p>\n<p>In January, the company launched messaging app Duoshan [2] at an event in Beijing. At the time, analysts flagged the move as a challenge to WeChat, despite protests from Bytedance executives that it was targeting a different audience than its competitor.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/messaging-apps-dominate-downloads-in-q1\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/bytedance-looks-to-take-on-wechat\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bytedance, the company behind popular short-form video app TikTok, debuted a new messaging service in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/bytedance-aims-to-spark-interest-with-messaging-move\/\">Bytedance aims to spark interest with messaging move<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/21\/bytedance-aims-to-spark-interest-with-messaging-move\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2069,2,2047,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-zqQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136205,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136204\/revisions\/136205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}