After this WeChat update, can you now send rockets and 666 to your friends circle?

Today, when Shichao was browsing Weibo, he saw a hot search with quite a lot of attention: WeChat had launched WeChat beans.

Shichao suddenly perked up.

What? WeChat is going to release snacks? What flavors are there and where can I buy them? With the mentality of looking for purchase links in the information that is flooding my screen, I quickly checked Weibo.

It turned out to be a WeChat update. WeChat beans are virtual products given to anchors as rewards and have nothing to do with snacks.

Huh? WeChat has been updated again? Shichao went to the App Store and took a look. It was true. He decisively updated to version 7.0.20 to see what this WeChat bean was all about.

After the update, the WeChat Beans option appeared in WeChat, and the location is relatively easy to find. Click the avatar in the [Me] column to enter the personal information, and you can see an additional WeChat Bean in the list.

The interface layout of WeChat Beans is somewhat similar to that of change, with a recharge button in the center of the screen and consumption details visible in the upper right corner.

The recharge price is also clearly marked, 7 pieces for 1 yuan, and there is no discount if you recharge more. Even if you are the king of the world, you will still pay the same price.

Although they look like Q coins, WeChat beans are different from Q coins. Currently, they can only be used to reward anchors, and cannot be used for other purposes. But why is it 7 beans for 1 yuan? Shichao speculated that it might be because the App Store takes a 30% commission.

The numbers match, but whether this is the reason or not, we can only wait for the Android version to be updated. Anyway, since we are here, we can charge as much as we can. Shichao only charges 1 yuan.

Now that I have beans, I am a little excited to give gifts to the anchor on WeChat. But I may not be able to squander 7 beans.

The updated WeChat live broadcast entrance is also easier to find. In the [Discover] column, nearby people are directly transformed into nearby live broadcasts and people.

Click in and you can see three sections: nearby videos, live broadcasts and people.

Before, Shichao had never opened a contact with nearby people, otherwise its location information would be exposed and a bunch of WeChat businessmen would come to its door.

This time, WeChat has integrated these three sections together, making it easier to accidentally touch them. If you accidentally click on them, you can only clear the location information in time.

Shichao is still looking forward to this section being customizable, so that he can hide the sections he doesn't use often. The live broadcast sorting is a bit strange, and it is obviously not ranked according to the number of viewers.

Although this ranking is confusing, WeChat has all the functions that live streaming should have, including chat, shopping links, microphone connection, reward and like functions.

I have a place to use my 7 beans! Like other live streaming platforms, WeChat beans are used as virtual currency to buy props.

7 beans can only buy 7 hearts, not even a clap, it's too wasteful. If you can't support the event financially, you can support it with a person.

The live broadcast can be sent to friends and shared on WeChat Moments. After clicking, you can jump directly to the live broadcast room.

Shichao also tried it and found that it is not difficult to start a live broadcast on WeChat. You can create a live broadcast room by clicking "Start Live Broadcast" and there is no so-called fan threshold or like threshold.

But Shichao's WeChat account has been authenticated, and it's a little more troublesome to use a WeChat account without authentication. However, it's easy to start a live broadcast, but whether there are people coming is another matter. At least there was no one in Shichao's live broadcast room.

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After becoming a host, Shichao discovered that WeChat Live also has some simple beautification functions, such as flipping, mirroring, beauty and filters, which basically meet the daily needs of hosts.

Moreover, you can choose a category before the broadcast starts, which makes it easier for WeChat to classify live broadcasts and allows viewers to find the host more accurately.

However, Shichao also discovered that as a host, I cannot set up shopping links. As for how to turn on this function, it is not clear yet.

From a fan to a live streamer, Shichao has experienced all the updates of WeChat. And this time, not only the live broadcast function has been updated, but there are also some related small changes in other places, such as the video account can be directly displayed in the personal business card.

At the same time, "Album" also became "Friends Circle", but the content inside did not change, it just changed the name.

Live broadcast, video account, Moments, WeChat's next goal is probably to target content social networking. With such a huge number of users and a simple content threshold, I don't know what other apps think.

By the way, this WeChat update mainly updated the live broadcast section, but the historical record on the App Store is still the same as the previous version. I don’t know whether the WeChat programmers were lazy or Apple operations made a mistake.

Coincidentally, the Windows version of WeChat was also updated to version 3.1.0 today, adding group chat setting notes, and the group chat notes of the Windows version can be synchronized to the mobile phone, which is pretty good.

It supports not displaying a certain chat in the chat list. This scumbag feature has also spread to the Windows version.

The group also supports voice and video calls for up to 15 people, so it is no problem to hold a remote meeting. So the worst is still Android? I wonder when Android users will be able to play live broadcasts.