ABSTRACT

China has the fastest growth in term of its social media usage worldwide. According to the research report by Kantar Group Limited, China ranks third highest in social media penetration when compared with the USA, UK, France and Brazil. Social media services in China provide platforms for communication and sharing information. Much research has been carried out regarding the inaccessibility of a number of different social media platforms. WeChat is a social media product of Tencent. After its release in 2011, it has grown fast and by the end of 2015 it had over 600 million monthly active users from all over the world. The chats screen lists all the chat threads. Tapping on the individual chat thread will navigate the user to the corresponding chatting screen. The contacts screen displays a list of contacts that user has added in WeChat.