{"id":908,"date":"2023-10-24T03:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/changes-to-user-profiles-temporarily-suspended-on-big-platforms\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T08:30:03","slug":"changes-to-user-profiles-temporarily-suspended-on-big-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/changes-to-user-profiles-temporarily-suspended-on-big-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to User Profiles Temporarily Suspended On Big Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Mainland\u2019s three biggest <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"inside_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/tag\/social-media\/\" title=\"View all posts in social media\" >social media<\/a> platforms have made near-simultaneous announcements to their clients. All users will have to wait until November if they want to change their profile pictures, usernames or personal biographies on WeChat, QQ and<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(12, 11, 11, 0.96); font-size: 16px;\">The Mainland\u2019s three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/jobs?type=marketing\">biggest social media platforms<\/a> have made near-simultaneous announcements to their clients.\u00a0 All users will have to wait until November if they want to change their profile pictures, usernames or personal biographies on WeChat, QQ and Weibo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fm96Obd4rEcnSqVYoyyGyXtWbhLo?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"1.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"395.4714285714286\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 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href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/changes-to-user-profiles-temporarily-suspended-on-big-platforms\/#Photo_Internet-2\" title=\"Photo: Internet\">Photo: Internet<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/changes-to-user-profiles-temporarily-suspended-on-big-platforms\/#Photo_Medium\" title=\"Photo: Medium\">Photo: Medium<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Internet\"><\/span>Photo: Internet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WeChat, which has 963 million active users, announced the freeze in a statement on Tuesday, the night before China\u2019s Communist Party congress opened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The social media giant said it was for \u201csystem maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The brief announcement added that other functions would not be affected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The restrictions only appeared to have been applied to accounts registered in mainland China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fq9IdiOqzAqigEnUg-QAkPYR51uY?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"22.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"353.4\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_New_MobileLife\"><\/span>Photo: New MobileLife<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">QQ, another popular messaging app owned by Tencent, the tech giant behind WeChat, sent a similar message to its users earlier the same day, also attributing the move to \u201csystem maintenance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weibo \u2013 which is often described as China\u2019s equivalent to Twitter \u2013 went even further, closing new overseas registrations until October 30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FuzKHNPKYq67FSsVsvxVDvQ2jJCX?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"3.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"292.6477987421384\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Internet-2\"><\/span>Photo: Internet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The social media platform also issued an announcement on Tuesday \u2013 once again attributing the freeze to \u201csystem upgrading\u201d \u2013 but soon deleted the post from its official account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The microblog has more than 360 million active users, compared with Twitter\u2019s 328 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Weibo has previously introduced similar measures when the platform needed upgrading or maintenance \u2013 but the freezes usually only stayed in effect for a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WeChat has not done anything like this before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fn0sviVDMOFs3w0RUndx_l_FrANy?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" alt=\"44.jpeg\" width=\"589\" height=\"433.8487804878049\" title=\"\"><\/i><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Medium\"><\/span>Photo: Medium<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The South China Morning Post previously reported how in the run-up to the party congress Airbnb and other short-term rental companies had cancelled all bookings in the center of Beijing and that all drone flights have been banned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, universities have been told to submit daily cyber security reports between October 8 and 27.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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