This section's may be compromised due to out-of-date information. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (December 2013) The QQ Coin is a used by QQ users to 'purchase' QQ related items for their. Q Coins are obtained either by purchase (one coin for one ) or by using the mobile phone service. Due to the popularity of QQ among young people in China, QQ Coins are gradually becoming accepted by online vendors in exchange for 'real' merchandise such as small gifts.

This has raised concerns of replacing (and thus 'inflating') real currency in these transactions. The, China's central bank, says it is investigating the possibility of cracking down on Q Coins due to people using Q Coins in exchange for real world goods. Tencent claims the QQ Coin is a mere regular commodity, and is, therefore, not a currency. QQ International Windows In 2009, QQ began to expand its services internationally with its QQ International client for Windows distributed through a dedicated English-language portal.

QQ International offers non-Mandarin speakers the opportunity to use most of the features of its Chinese counterpart to get in touch with other QQ users via chat, VoIP, and video calls, and it provides a non-Mandarin interface to access, Tencent's social network. The client supports English, French, Spanish, German, Korean, Japanese and Traditional Chinese. One of the main features of QQ International is the optional and automatic in all chats. Android An Android version of QQ International was released on September 2013.

The client's interface is in English, French, Spanish, German, Korean, Japanese and Traditional Chinese. In addition to text messaging, users can send each other images, videos, and audio media messages. Moreover, users can share multimedia content with all contacts through the client's interface. The live translation feature is available for all incoming messages and supports up to 18 languages. IOS QQ International for iPhone and iOS devices was released at the end of 2013, fully equivalent to its Android counterpart.

Partnerships In India, Tencent has partnered with to bring services such as chat, mail and game to the developing Indian internet sphere. In Vietnam, Tencent has struck a deal with to bring the QQ Casual Gaming portal as well as the QQ Messenger as an addition to the already thriving Vietnamese gaming communities. In the United States, Tencent has partnered with to bring as a contender in the US social gaming market. Launched in 2007, QQ Games came bundled with the AIM installer, and competed with AOL's own games.com to provide a gaming experience for the AIM user base. Web QQ Tencent launched its web-based QQ formally on 15 September 2009, the latest version of which being 3.0. Rather than solely a web-based IM, WebQQ 3.0 functions more like its own operating system, with a desktop in which web applications can be added.

Social network website In 2009, Tencent launched Xiaoyou (校友, 'schoolmate'), its first social network website. In mid-2010, Tencent changed direction and replaced Xiaoyou with (朋友, 'friends'), trying to establish a more widespread network, to which extant QQ users could be easily redirected, hence giving Pengyou a major advantage over its competitors. Tencent's social network is linked to in the International and native versions of QQ. Open source and cross-platform clients Using, open source have come to understand the better and have attempted to implement client core libraries compatible with more user-friendly clients, free of advertisements. Most of these clients are cross-platform, so they are usable on operating systems which the official client does not support.

However, these implementations had only a subset of functions of the official client and therefore were limited in features. Furthermore, QQ's parent company, Tencent, has over successive versions modified the QQ protocol to the extent that it can no longer be supported by most, and perhaps any, of the third-party implementations that were successful in the past (some of which are listed below). As of 2009, none of the developers of third-party clients have publicized any plans to restore QQ support., an open source cross-platform, with third-party., an open source OS X client, with third-party built on top of libqq-pidgin., an open source designed for. Note: Kopete, old versions of Pidgin, and any other client whose QQ support was based on libpurple no longer supports QQ as of May 2011., an open source, designed for, with MirandaQQ2 plugin. Merchandise Tencent has taken advantage of the popularity of the QQ brand and has set up many Q-Gen stores selling QQ branded merchandise such as bags, watches, clothing as well as toy penguins. Related characteristics. The accounts of QQ are purely a combination of numbers.

The account numbers provided for the registered users are selected randomly by the system user registration. In 1995, the registered QQ accounts had only 5 digits, while currently, the digital numbers used for QQ accounts has reached 12. The first QQ number is held by and his account number is 10001. The membership of a QQ account normally lasts for a month. When this membership is overdue and has not been renewed, the said account will be deactivated.

In relation to calculating 'QQ Age', being logged in for 2 full hours would be considered as one full day. Thus, being logged in to QQ for around 700 hours would make the age increase by 1 year. In the 2012 version of QQ, users can see the age on the personal information page. In 2004, Tencent launched QQ hierarchy which shows the level of a registered member. At the very beginning, this hierarchy was solely based on the hours a member spent in QQ. Hence, the longer the member stayed, the higher level he can aim. These results, however, were criticized as people tend to waste electrical energy due to longer hours of stay on the site.

Therefore, Tencent changed the basis from an hour unit to a daily unit due to the involvement of several departments. Controversies and criticisms Coral QQ. This section's may be compromised due to out-of-date information. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (September 2017) Coral QQ, a modification of Tencent QQ, is another add-on for the software, providing free access to some of the services and blocking Tencent's advertisements. In 2006, Tencent filed a copyright lawsuit against Chen Shoufu (aka Soft), the author of Coral QQ, after his distribution of a modified Tencent QQ was ruled illegal. Chen then published his modification as a separate add-on.

On 16 August 2007, Chen was detained again for allegedly making profits off of his ad-blocking add-on. His case is pending at district court. Dispute with Qihoo 360. Main article: In 2010, Chinese anti-virus company, analyzed the QQ protocol and accused QQ of automatically scanning users' computers and uploading their personal information to QQ's servers without the users' consent. In response, Tencent called 360 a and denied users of installing 360 access to some of the QQ's services. The Chinese reprimanded both companies for 'improper competition' and ordered them to come to an agreement.

Government surveillance Some observers have criticized QQ's compliance in the Chinese government's. A 2013 report by specifically mentioned QQ as allowing authorities to monitor online conversations for keywords or phrases and track participants by their user number. Adware controversy The Chinese version of QQ makes use of embedded advertisements.

Older versions of the client have been branded as malicious by some antivirus and anti-spyware vendors. Both the Chinese and International versions of QQ had been tested. Security On March 6, 2015, QQ scored 2 out of 7 points on the 's secure messaging scorecard. It received points for having communications encrypted in transit and for having a recent independent security audit.

It lost points because communications are not, users can't verify contacts' identities, past messages are not secure if the encryption keys are stolen (i.e. The service does not provide ), the code is not open to independent review (i.e. The code is not ), and the security design is not properly documented. See also. References. 16 June 2018. 16 June 2018.

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