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What is WeChat?

GayleneNepia

Published on August 22, 2016

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This is what I know about WeChat:

It’s a Chinese messaging app developed in January 2011 initially as a text, voice, photo-sharing app that has expanded to provide functions so that you can check into flights, order cabs, pay bills, play games, sell products, share locations and more – and you can get things done within seconds because you can do multiple things at once. It has around 700 million active users. And in China, everyone is on WeChat. Apparently, nothing in the US comes close.

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Yes, it is a messaging app, but it’s also a platform to a number of other applications that have nothing to do with messaging. You could call it “an app within an app”.

Anyway, I created an account the other day - which is free and really simple to set up, and I even found some friends that were using the app.

When I learn a little more about this app I’ll post more information here.

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