An exploration of WeChat's new Send Gift function, which allows users to send physical products as presents to their friends in chats.| ChinaTalk
WeChat ad types, targeting options, and pricing to maximize your brand's visibility in the Chinese market.| SEO China Agency
Wechat mini-program development crash course + how your brand can benefits from having a wechat mini-program| Ecommerce China
We conducted the first analysis of WeChat’s tracking ecosystem. Using reverse engineering methods to intercept WeChat’s network requests, we identified exactly what types of data the WeChat app is sending to its servers, and when. This report is part one of a two-part series on a privacy and security analysis of the WeChat ecosystem.| The Citizen Lab
This report demonstrates the technical underpinnings of how WeChat image censorship operates and suggests possible evasion strategies.| The Citizen Lab
In this report we take an in-depth look at how WeChat, the most popular chat app in China, censored content related to the NCPC19.| The Citizen Lab
WeChat and Sina Weibo adapted and evolved their censorship efforts in response to the death of Liu Xiaobo.| The Citizen Lab
This report analyzes the information control practices related to a national crackdown on Chinese rights lawyers and activists on two leading Chinese social media networks. We document the Search filtering on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service, as well as keyword and image censorship on WeChat, the most popular chat app in China.| The Citizen Lab
This FAQ accompanies the full report on privacy in the WeChat ecosystem. We analyzes privacy issues with popular app WeChat by reviewing the data collected by the app and sent to WeChat servers during the regular operation of its various features. We find that they collect more usage data than is disclosed in the WeChat privacy policy.| The Citizen Lab
WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.| The Citizen Lab
In this work, we study how Tencent implements image filtering on WeChat. We found that Tencent implements realtime, automatic censorship of chat images on WeChat based on what text is in an image and based on an image’s visual similarity to those on a blacklist. Tencent facilitates this realtime filtering by maintaining a hash index of MD5 hashes of sensitive image files.| The Citizen Lab
In this report we provide the first systematic study of keyword and website censorship on WeChat, the most popular chat app in China| The Citizen Lab
This report performs the first public analysis of MMTLS, the main network protocol used by WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The report finds that MMTLS is a modified version of TLS, however some of the modifications have introduced cryptographic weaknesses.| The Citizen Lab
When you find out you’ve been the side chick to an Apple Watch Wife all along :(| That's What Xu Said
wechatvids: The one that inspired the account. If you know where this video came from (or had it sent to you earlier than the date posted, please let me know! I’d love to track down the original creators of these amazing videos. I’m ripping all the videos that come my way on WeChat and posting them to Vine / Tumblr for your viewing pleasure, starting with this one. If you see any good ones, please pass them my way on WeChat (chrysaora) or upload them yourself and tag with #wechatvids!| That's What Xu Said
WeChat Channels not showing how to make it show up. And the solution to WeChat Channels hot tab disappeared.| China Help
On Chinese social media, women are censored and harassed, but undeterred.| Rest of World
How to Pay Like a Local in China: Your Complete Guide to Using WeChat Pay (Weixin Pay) in 2025 | WeChat pay for foreigners| China Travel Destination