WeChatter

English

Etymology

From WeChat +‎ -er.

Noun

WeChatter (plural WeChatters)

1. A user of the Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app WeChat.
   • 2014 February 27, Rachel Lu, “Chinese say ‘no thanks’ to WhatsApp”, in The Modesto Bee, page A11:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

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

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