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WeChat or Weixin in Chinese (Chinese: 微信; pinyin: Wēixìn (listen ⓘ); lit. 'micro-message') [a] is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018 [5] [6] with over 1 billion monthly active users.
WeChat is a mobile app with functions such as voice- and text messaging, mobile payment, and a friends-only social network called Moments. [157] It is the most popular social mobile application in China and some overseas Chinese communities, for instance, Malaysia .
In 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canada's telecommunications regulator, stated that it "considers that Internet access to programming independent of a facility or network dedicated to its delivery (via, for example, cable or satellite) is the defining feature of what has been termed 'over-the-top' services".