Major events on Chinese social media in 2014
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Trapping Maniac Cat
Smartphone games boom
Not long after Flappy Bird and 2048 claimed the attention of smartphone users nationwide, Trapping Maniac Cat, a phone game based on the WeChat platform China. Since its debut at 2 p.m on July 22, the game managed to attract 2.41 million IP addresses with an unbelieveable 10.26 million page views.
Although such games are short-lived, they still successfully influenced their WeChat friends. The nature of WeChat platform limit the complexity of such phone games, but various unusual way of playing them nonetheless made them boom.
