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Everything about WeChat

Chinese multi-purpose mobile app

WeChat is an instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018 with over 1 billion monthly active users. WeChat has been described as China's "app for everything" and a super-app because of its wide range of functions. 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. It has been described as having "an almost indispensable part of life in China". Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: WeChatA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Determining influences of information irrelevance, information overload and communication overload on WeChat discontinuance intention: The moderating role of exhaustionInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: WeChat and the Chinese DiasporaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Examining WeChat users’ motivations, trust, attitudes, and positive word-of-mouth: Evidence from ChinaCited 414 times
  5. Go sideways: WeChat PayA closely related topic
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  1. History
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  4. Marketing
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  6. Controversies
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🆕 Influential since 2022

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