WeChatter

plural WeChatters

1. A user of the Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app WeChat.

   In July, a “view people nearby” function was launched, which meant users could find other “WeChatters” in the vicinity and add them as friends.

   2022, Winter Nie, Mark J. Greeven, Yunfei Feng, James Wang, The Future of Global Retail: Learning from China’s Retail Revolution, Routledge, →ISBN

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   WhatsApp can be freely downloaded in China. But the app is unlikely to appeal to WeChatters, who have stayed loyal despite the introduction of a slew of Chinese clones and regional competitors like LINE, popular in Japan and Taiwan, and KakaoTalk, popular in South Korea. WeChatters’ loyalty has been well earned, as WeChat already provides a richer user experience than WhatsApp.

   2014 February 27, Rachel Lu, “Chinese say ‘no thanks’ to WhatsApp”, in The Modesto Bee, page A11

   The jianghu of BBS-ers (since 1991 with computer-mediated CFido and later Internet-based BBS since 1996), hackers (since 1997), online novelists (since 1998), QQ-ers (since 1999), fansubbers (since 2001), gamers (since 2001), bloggers (since 2005), spoofters (since 2006), human flesh searchers (since 2007) microbloggers (since 2009), and WeChatters (since 2013)—to name just a few—have had their ups and downs.

   2017, Haiqing Yu, “Social Imaginaries of the Internet in China”, in Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland, editors, The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories, Routledge, →ISBN, part 4 (Imagining Community via the Internet), page 247