The new tipping button would be tweaked so that payments go to individual authors, instead of the WeChat public account holders, said WeChat creator Allen Zhang. (File Photo) The new tipping button would be tweaked so that payments go to individual authors, instead of the WeChat public account holders, said WeChat creator Allen Zhang. Tencent Holdings’ WeChat has reached an understanding with Apple regarding this ‘feature with Chinese characteristics’, Allen Zhang, the creator and president of WeChat, said at the annual WeChat developers conference in Guangzhou on Monday. There are now some 580,000 mini-programmes on WeChat with 170 million daily active users, Gerald Hu, a WeChat manager told the conference. More than 1 million developers and 2,300 third-party platforms are currently working on WeChat mini-programmes.

Source: Indian Express January 15, 2018 08:48 UTC