WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, mobile payment, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing.Īccounts registered using Chinese phone numbers are managed under the Weixin brand, and their data is stored in mainland China and subject to Weixin's terms of service and privacy policy, which forbids content which 'endanger national security, divulge state secrets, subvert state power and undermine national unity'.
WeChat has been described as China's 'app for everything' and a super-app because of its wide range of functions. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018 with over 1 billion monthly active users.
'micro-message') is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. WeChat or Weixin in Chinese ( Chinese: 微信 pinyin: Wēixìn ( listen ⓘ) lit. Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, Turkish
