China Daily Global Edition (USA)

Pay-to-view will improve quality ofWeChat public accounts

-

WECHAT, Tencent’s popular instant messaging app, made public accounts pay-to-viewon Feb 14. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Thursday:

It is good news for both original content creators and readers. The pay-to-viewservic­e not only transforms informatio­n into capital, but also by respecting the informatio­n demonstrat­es its value.

The pay-to-viewservic­e also gives users the right to choose. It means they can shield themselves from vulgar, bad, false or worthless informatio­n. All the informatio­n pollution wastes the public time, misleads and influences the public value systems.

This pay-to-viewservic­e can be regarded as an automatic purificati­on of informatio­n. But the quality of the content is the premise for pay-to-view, which means the content must be king.

Pay-to-viewhas been a topic of public concern. But in reality, some people have realized the value of the service, and are willing to pay to viewgood quality content.

Up until now the public has no choice but to passively accept the publicWeCh­at accounts which have multiplied in the past few years.

Now, with the pay-to-view function, it means people can viewjust the content they want. The newfeature of the social media also gives the informatio­n provider a wake-up call that the broad-minded informatio­n can come to an end. A content-based, informatio­n supply is taking shape.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States