Big data for Spring Festival: 8m overseas trips, etc

Updated: 2016-02-15 14:15

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Big data for Spring Festival: 8m overseas trips, etc

The WeChat Red Envelope

6. 409,000 red envelopes being sent or received in a second

According to Tencent Holdings Ltd, 420 million people participated in Red Envelope, an interactive game on instant messaging app WeChat where people can gift certain amount of money as best wishes to others.

The number of all the red packets that were given and received reached 8.08 billion, eight times than that in last year which is 1.01 billion.

The peak time was 00:06:09 when 409,000 electronic red envelopes were sent and received.