Shulou(Shulou.com)05/31 Report--

Recently, in the evening, the well-known blogger @ Internet broke the news in his WeChat circle of friends: "Weixin Official Accounts have offered big killers again! Paid subscription. "

Photo Note: Screenshot of Friends Circle of Internet Things

As early as August 4, there was a public account operator who revealed that WeChat was testing the paid reading function internally. In the original statement function of the public account, the original "allowed reprint" was updated to "paid subscription" in the reprint status column.

Click "paid subscription" to display,"original reprint status: reprint prohibited, whitelist function of paid articles unavailable. "

It is unclear whether this is caused by a failure of WeChat or whether the payment function is being tested internally.

As early as February this year, WeChat operators revealed that some people saw the paid reading function when editing in the background of Weixin Official Accounts. According to the source, the public account operator can set the number of words for free reading of an article, but within 200 words. Readers can read the set previous paragraph text for free, and want to read the full text will have to pay. The payment amount is between 0 and 200 yuan, and operators can set it themselves before publishing.

In response to the operator's revelations in early February, WeChat officials said that new functions such as paid reading would adopt the "invitation system" for internal testing and would not be open to the public for the time being.

At present, all the information about Weixin Official Accounts is hearsay, and the WeChat team has not given any exact information about whether paid reading is being tested internally.

However, some netizens said that once WeChat opens paid reading, it may not mean that high-quality content will benefit, and the headline party phenomenon may be more serious.

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