QQ the most popular IM in china

With more than 1 billion registered accounts and 500 million monthly active accounts
QQ is both the most popular instant messenger service
and the largest online community in the world.

In China, QQ is not just a way to communicate—it’s a phenomenon, a part of
culture, and a daily necessity. – imqq

If you asking somene phone number in china you could ask their QQ number instead, most of chinese use this IM to communicate, they prefer using QQ than other messanger like YM or MSN. I don’t really know why but surely you can talk to chinese if you had QQ account.

There’s some issue that QQ account can only be use in chinese, nope. QQ is global IM that can use around the world not only chinese, just because it was popular in chinese they said like that. This powerfull IM have most of feature that other popular IM have like groups,local news,weather,skin and others, but mostly came up with chinese style.

There’s also feature in QQ that let you login using email. For register : http://www.imqq.com/signup.shtml, For intl user, QQ  provide an international version too, you can download it at http://www.imqq.com/download.shtml the newer version is beta 2 (avaible for win and mac).You can also login your QQ using pidgin application.

Make sure you don’t hang out with this cute penguin too much..