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Tencent resumes new user sign-ups on WeChat after ‘security upgrade’ last week
- WeChat had paused new users registrations so it could upgrade its ‘security technology to align with all relevant laws and regulations’
- According to tests conducted by the South China Morning Post on Thursday, the Shenzhen-based company has reopened the app to new sign-ups
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Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has resumed new user registrations for its ubiquitous superapp WeChat after it suspended new sign-ups last week while it conducted a “security upgrade”, a move which had raised concerns over the intensity and depth of Beijing’s regulatory push into the tech sector.
Weixin, the mainland Chinese version of WeChat, had paused new users registrations so it could upgrade its “security technology to align with all relevant laws and regulations”, the company said in a brief statement at the time.
The suspension of sign-ups only applied to mainland users, not those joining from overseas.
The Shenzhen-based company has since reopened the app to new sign-ups, according to tests conducted by the South China Morning Post on Thursday.
Tencent confirmed that new user registration on Weixin has resumed.
WeChat is China’s most used mobile application with over 1.2 billion people who use it to chat, play games, shop, read the news and pay for almost everything online and off.
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