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Feb 26, 2020 21 tweets 8 min read
DingTalk’s CEO Chen Hang did a 90min live stream to celebrate the launch of #DingTalk v5.0

He didn't keep the mask on long

Part launch event, part recognition of the team's heroic product release rate responding to the #COVIDー19 epidemic (thread)
h5.dingtalk.com/group-live-sha… When the epidemic started, with hundreds of millions of people facing quarantine, the first thing they did was publish a guide to teach people *how* to work remotely.

Next they expanded free video conferencing from 30 to 302 people (302, we assume, to best WeChat Work's 300).
Feb 2, 2020 9 tweets 6 min read
1/ #WeChat Work v3.0.4 is out today, headlined by an upgrade to free audio/video conferencing up to 300 simultaneous users

The video conferencing feature was rebranded in December to 'Meeting', matching Tencent's new standalone conferencing app '腾讯会议' meeting.qq.com 2/ Audio/video conferencing is one of the few features that other enterprise messengers are trying to monetize (the other being cloud storage).

The update to 300 free seats puts them exactly 10x ahead of DingTalk, and way ahead of Bytedance Lark (飞书) and Huawei WeLink.