what is wechat
WeChat (Chinese: å¾®ä¿¡; pinyin: WÄixÃ¬n; literally: micro message) is a social media (instant messaging, commerce and payment services) application developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011 and by 2016 it was one of the largest standalone messaging apps by monthly active users, with over 889 million active users.