The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research.

With currently over one billion monthly active users, the Chinese social media and multipurpose application WeChat (, , micro-message) has become one of the world's most popular social media platforms. Despite its enormous number of users in Asia, WeChat is still not well known in Western countries. Against this background, the present review aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview on the functionality of this application, comparison with other popular applications such as Facebook/WhatsApp and previous research.