Bill Gates joins China's most popular social network. Image: Seth Wenig/AP/REX/Shutterstock China's most popular messaging app now has one more person it can add to its massive user base — Bill Gates. The Microsoft founder joined WeChat on Saturday, and made his first post: a brief 30 second video in which he welcomed Chinese netizens to his account. Gates' account is @gatesnotes, and he describes it as his "personal blog." The post has received 80,000 views and over 6000 likes so far. But Gates is not the only Western celebrity to jump on the WeChat bandwagon. WeChat has since its launch in 2011, become China's top social app, with some 846 million users signed up. People can subscribe to personalities' accounts to follow them, and many consume news via broadcasters' accounts on WeChat. Bill Gates isn't new to the Chinese social media scene. Gates has been posting on a series of topics including climate change, R&D and fighting global poverty.
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China’s most popular messaging app now has one more person it can add to its massive user base — Bill Gates.
The Microsoft founder joined WeChat on Saturday, and made his first post: a brief 30 second video in which he welcomed Chinese netizens to his account.
WeChat has a Whatsapp-like messaging interface, but is also popularly used for its blogging timeline feature, similar to what Facebook offers.
Gates’ account is @gatesnotes, and he describes it as his “personal blog.”
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Gates adds that the account will “share about the people I…
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