Definition of "WeChat"

The "heads bowed down" (to look at cell phones), those obsessed with cell phones, virtual chat, the Internet, and excessive WeChatting, which we see as a phenomenon everywhere, reflect attempts to overcome the loneliness and disinterest this generation feels, and to make up for their empty spiritual world through newly available technologies.

2017 April 5, Huidi Ma, Er Liu, Traditional Chinese Leisure Culture and Economic Development: A Conflict of Forces, Springer

With the development of social platforms such as micro blogging and wechatting, Chinese short text classification has great impact on public opinion analysis and sentiment mining.

2018 October 20, Leong Hou U, Haoran Xie, Web and Big Data: APWeb-WAIM 2018 International Workshops: MWDA, BAH, KGMA, DMMOOC, DS, Macau, China, July 23–25, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, Springer

Wechatting American politics: Misinformation, polarization, and immigrant Chinese media

2019 November 5, Andy Ng, Tina Burrett, Jeffrey Kingston, Routledge

I WeChatted a seller calling herself Linda — a name that, amid others like Aadi, Aooko, Mr. Bao and Zippy, made her seem the least likely to scam me and/or get me placed on a C.I.A. watch list — and instantly she sent me photos of a dozen possible Triomphes.

2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times‎