WeChat joins New Year celebrations with video messages from stars
WeChat, a growing social application, allows its users to enjoy New Year celebrations by receiving video clips of New Year wishes from some celebrities.
Users of smart phones, which have been installed with WeChat app, can also record their video New Year wishes on their phones and send to other WeChat contacts.
The celebrities include three singers of The Star.
Users can also use the “Look Around” feature to find celebration activities of other WeChat users and can send stickers of New Year wishes to them.
WeChat is a fasting growing social application developed by Tencent, with more than 200 million user accounts worldwide.
WeChat provides multimedia communication flexibility and convenience with text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, video/voice call, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, photo/video sharing, location sharing, and contact information exchange. WeChat also supports social networking via shared streaming content feeds and location-based social plug-ins ('Shake', 'Look Around', and 'Drift Bottle') to chat with and befriend local and international WeChat users. It’s available for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Symbian platforms with multi-languages support.
