Overview
- Tencent PR chief Zhang Jun said Tuesday that WeChat will never add read receipts or visitor logs and confirmed the status view-count experiment has ended.
- The small iOS-only gray test showed how many people viewed a status and floated friends’ avatar bubbles that linked to their own statuses.
- Customer support said the feature did not show who visited and stressed that WeChat designs features with privacy protection as the starting point.
- A WeChat employee called viral images that appeared to show detailed visitor records doctored and labeled the posts as rumors.
- Reports of the trial climbed Weibo’s trending lists, reflecting worry that traceable views would add pressure to casual browsing on a platform built on low‑stress social norms.