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hold-to-talk voice messaging

hold-to-talk voice messaging is neither defined nor referenced — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sboehringer (talk • contribs) 09:40, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

State run surveillance controversy

Many Chinese cellular companies, such as Huawei or ZTE monitor users, and often sell them to other nations. I believe a controversy section could be added to WeChat, as there have been many reports of Chinese government snooping ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6]

If this doesn't warrant a controversy section, I don't know what will.

Can you please talk about something else besides speculating how shady things are? There is plenty of other ways to improve the article, but everyone on this talk page focuses on how bad China is. --88.66.174.2 (talk) 02:37, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Chinese government snooping" - you mean the Chinese government is doing exactly the same as what the US government has been doing for years? If you find that controversial, I suggest you google for Edward Snowden. There's a difference, of course. Having hoovered up every detail about me, the US government might decide to kill me with a drone strike. The Chinese government doesn't seem to do things like that. Longitude2 (talk) 14:13, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, let us include and keep controversies. Zezen (talk) 12:44, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "All Eyes Are on WeChat, Including the Chinese Government's". Motherboard. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^ Nicola Davison. "WeChat: the Chinese social media app that has dissidents worried". the Guardian. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^ Paul Carsten and Adam Rose (11 December 2013). "China's hot messaging app WeChat may be good news for censors". Reuters. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^ "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". Retrieved 3 May 2016.
^ http://www.chinagaze.com/2012/12/17/be-careful-about-the-risk-of-using-wechat/
^ "Hu Jia explains why mobile apps make activism spooky". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 3 May 2016.

Daveburstein (talk) 16:46, 11 July 2015 (UTC) I rewrote the security section to make it neutral and shorter. I believe my changes (see History) did not change the substance. I began with the comment that Chaina could censor and intercept, which is the point. Also cleared from talk some items that didn't belong, such as a user support question.[reply]

internal censorship

The article says the company has asserted it no longer censors international traffic. Is there any evidence that this is actually the case? I find it particularly unlikely it would stop censoring outside messages to China. DGG ( talk ) 09:10, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are a bit paranoid. China can't control the global Internet. How does China even know if the recipient is located in China the moment you receive a message? Are you sure they use GPS to track every irrelevant individual? --88.66.174.2 (talk) 02:37, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Revert of additions on 12 August 2015

Hi Banner. You reverted my changes on 12 August 2015. Please explain why.SylviaStanley (talk) 21:19, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Disguised promo The Banner talk 21:45, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I reject your suggestion that my additions were a disguised promotions. The information and rticles that I quoted are reasonably independent and, in my view, added information that was objective. I have no connection with WeChat. It seemed to me that when I I came across this article on WeChat, it was poorly written, did not have enough citations, was missing factual information on the company and had a banner above it requesting help in improving it. I tried to rectify that a little (there is much more to do). What do you claim is a promotion in my additions? Please discuss.SylviaStanley (talk) 11:15, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have looked at the Wikipedia guidelines on WP:Promo. In my opinion, my additions 1) were not Advocacy, propaganda, or recruitment 2) were not Opinion pieces. 3) were not Scandal mongering 4) were not Self-promotion and 5) were not Advertising, marketing or public relations. So, once again, I fail to see why you reverted/deleted my additions. And so once again, please explain your reasons.

Incidentally, looking into this article a bit further, I am now convinced this is an important article and should be expanded. Although WeChat is not well known outside China it is obviously successful as it has grown very rapidly (partly due to the Chinese government blocking external competitors but nevertheless..). This article as it stands does not do justice to the technical and marketing achievements of WeChat. I see that WeChat has attracted a lot of positive comments from the tech and telecommunications communities world wide.SylviaStanley (talk) 23:16, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Business model?

How does Tencent make money with this product? It is free and contains no sponsored content. What is the business model here? 223.72.95.194 (talk) 08:05, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How does WhatsApp make money without sponsored content? Please use your brain. --88.66.174.2 (talk) 02:37, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Tencent charges a very small fee for its payment services, and that's the main source of its revenue. Think of it as an alternative to Paypal.Longitude2 (talk) 14:15, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In all the social media websites, there must be login type added.

In all the social media websites, or the websites in which there is login, we must added proper description that how a user can login. like in some social media there is only login by phone number or in some email is only login or in some any of both are valid. There must be Login Type added in Infobox Software. Examples

Login Type - Only by Phone Number Login Type - Only by Email address(or Username) Login Type - Phone Number or Email address(or Username)(Any) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Niharpatel123456 (talk • contribs) 19:07, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Edit explanation

To begin with, I would like to stress that my edit didn't remove any single words in this article, but rather moved the Censorship section to the bottom of this article. In regard to the reason, please check out other article of SNS applications similar to WeChat, e.g. Telegram (messaging service), Line (software), WhatsApp, and Pinterest, where the censorship or ban section resides in the bottom part of these articles. Thus I was making this edit per established princicles. --223.89.144.25 (talk) 08:33, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Censorship is more significant in this app, as the scope of it is drastically different (wide-ranging censorship policies censoring common political themes to support the government vs acquiescing to a few government surveillance requests), and in coverage in both reliable sources (obviously mostly Western sources, given the Chinese sources are *censored*) and popular discourse - so it's an appropriate choice to put subjects both readers and reliable sources are very interested in closer to the top. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.156.233.252 (talk) 05:05, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ok Mohammad labah (talk) 23:53, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

طيب Mohammad labah (talk) 23:54, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bullshit

The Digital marketing section (and much of the rest of the article) has a lot of puffery and sentences that seem to be lifted directly from their marketing materiel. come on guys — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.156.233.252 (talk) 09:54, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of content

I've readded something you removed a long time ago, no objection if you re-remove it now, but I think it belongs tbh. 47.156.233.252 (talk) 16:14, 7 August 2018 (UTC) SgtRL-3[reply]

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Discussion on Maxit (maxit.my) on the reliable sources noticeboard

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There is consensus among editors that Maxit is not a reliable source for this claim, or in general. I have removed the sentence "In 2013, WeChat, announces their partnership with Chatime. — Newslinger talk 20:37, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Please make sure that the article properly differentiates the Chinese version (Weixin) and the international version (WeChat).

The article seems to be written at a time where all WeChat data was stored in Mainland China. Since Tencent changed it so that Weixin and WeChat are two separate services (see the sources), some of the content in the article might need updating to refer to the correct version of Weixin/WeChat. Félix An (talk) 04:13, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sources seem to refer to both as WeChat and say that they're essentially the same but with additional censorship and restrictions on the Chinese version. I see a number of sources referring to both the Chinese super app and the international messaging app as WeChat in English. I also see that you've changed WeChat to Weixin when the source only says WeChat, please don't do that. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 15:03, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To be clear, there is only one app called WeChat but two services called WeChat and Weixin. The WeChat app can login into both Weixin and WeChat services (based on the account). There are not two different apps. Njzjz (talk) 04:48, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello sir my wechat account is blocked please unblock meplace

Hello sir my wechat account is blocked please unblock me 37.111.129.244 (talk) 04:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but this is not WeChat technical support. You will have to contact their official support to ask for it. Félix An (talk) 06:48, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hussain Hussain account number 03466153718 place sir unblock

Hussain Hussain account number 03466153718 place sir unblock my account 37.111.129.244 (talk) 04:49, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but this is not WeChat technical support. You will have to contact their official support to ask for it. Félix An (talk) 06:48, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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bakit Hindi kona naebalik WeChat ko 103.196.104.147 (talk) 21:06, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "All Eyes Are on WeChat, Including the Chinese Government's". Motherboard. Retrieved 3 May 2016.

[2] Nicola Davison. "WeChat: the Chinese social media app that has dissidents worried". the Guardian. Retrieved 3 May 2016.

[3] Paul Carsten and Adam Rose (11 December 2013). "China's hot messaging app WeChat may be good news for censors". Reuters. Retrieved 3 May 2016.

[4] "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". Retrieved 3 May 2016.

[5] ttp://www.chinagaze.com/2012/12/17/be-careful-about-the-risk-of-using-wechat/

[6] "Hu Jia explains why mobile apps make activism spooky". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 3 May 2016.

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