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How to Upload Video to WeChat Moments?
WeChat is a cross-platform messenger for iPhone, Android, Windows phone, Nokia, BlackBerry, Mac and PC. It supports voice, photo, video and text messages sending, receiving and sharing across various mobile phones and even computers. You will be able to transfer videos freely between various phones, such as from iPhone to Samsung, Samsung to iPhone, iPhone to Android phones, Android to iPhone, iPhone to BlackBerry, and so on. You can refer to this guide to see how to share videos in WeChat on mobile phones. Since WeChat V6.0, you can also post video to WeChat Moments or WeChat chats through Sight videos from your smartphone. Many WeChat users however find they can’t upload videos to WeChat Moments from iPhone, Samsung, Android other other phones for sharing with your friends, family or in the public moments. You can only take Sight videos and upload these short video clips to WeChat moments, but not those existing videos in your Camera Roll on iPhone, or current videos in your Gallery on an Android phone. Is there any way to upload videos to WeChat moments from iPhone and Android video albums? How to Upload Video to WeChat Moments? Currently you can only directly upload sight videos in WeChat moments. If you like to post other recorded videos to WeChat Moments on your smartphone, like iPhone, Samsung, Android, HTC, Nokia, BlackBerry, you can choose one of the following methods. Method #1. Publish mobile phone videos online You need to publish the videos from your phone to a third party video sharing and hosting websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, or upload videos to your own websites and blogs first. Want to have your own website? Check out this guide and see how you can make a website in 5 minutes with WordPress. Then you will get the URL address to your video on the web, you can now post the URL links to your online videos in WeChat app for mobile. It is just like to share URL links in WeChat Moments on our mobile phones. Launch WeChat app on your smartphone, go to Discover >> Moments, then long press the Camera icon to reveal the Text box, Here you can copy and paste the URL to your videos in this box, then tap on the Send button to publish the video link in WeChat Moments. The published link to the video looks like the second link as shown in below screenshot. Tap on this video link in Moments, then WeChat will open your video with its built-in browser. You can see three dots at the top right corner if you are on an iPhone. Tap on this web page Share button, a link sharing and sending menu will pop up, see below screenshot. Now you can see the Share on Moments option. Except Sight videos, this is another way you can upload video to WeChat Moments. Tap on it and follow on-screen tips to post video on WeChat Moments so all your friends can see the video in your public moments. Scroll up to the previous figure, the first link at the top is the video published in WeChat Moments. You can see an image thumbnail in front of the link, the link itself will not be displayed, the title to your video page is displayed. So your WeChat friends can quickly understand the video content according to the video thumb and title, and they can tap on either of them to quickly open and display your posted video in WeChat Moments on their mobile phones. Now you know how to how to share video on WeChat Moments. Method #2. Favorite videos and Share videos on WeChat Moments The second method to upload or post videos to WeChat Moments is to add videos from mobile phone Camera or Gallery to a chat in WeChat, then favorite the video in WeChat, after that go to your WeChat Favorites to find the video and share the video on Moments. Extra Tips on Video Sharing & Saving in WeChat If you like to save the videos in WeChat Moments, you can simply favorite the videos in WeChat Moments so you can easily find them from your Favorite collection in WeChat in the future. Your friends can also add your uploaded videos to their favorite collection for future reference and quick access. Videos posted in WeChat Moments by one WeChat user can be shared again in WeChat Moments by another WeChat user. If you like to download the WeChat videos, send the video links to your computer and open the video on a desktop web browser, try to right click to download the video or make use of a video downloader to save a copy of the videos from WeChat Moments on to your computer. As to Sight videos, you can refer to this guide to save WeChat Sight videos. Leave us a comment below if you need further assistance in sharing, uploading, downloading or saving WeChat videos.
How to share a story on WeChat Moments?
Dear readers, Thank you very much for sharing China Daily stories with your WeChat, a popular social network app. Unfortunately, depending on the mobile explorers you are using, such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Chinese counterparts like Baidu, QQ or UC Web, the ways to share the news story on WeChat Moments differ a lot, from a simple one-click to a challenging posting-posting-deletion step. We can not provide one solution that works well on all explorers. Please let me know if you have one. Here's the perhaps most challenging step to share with Safari, in six steps. 1. Open the story with Safari, and then copy the link. 2. Open your WeChat and go to Moments (peng you quan in Chinese) in social tab. 3. Click the button in the upper right hand corner for a long time until you see a pop-up text box. 4. Paste the story link in the box and press Send. Now when you go to your WeChat Moments page, you can see the story published in the form of link. 5. Click the story link on your Wechat Moments page and it will open in WeChat. Then Click the button in the upper right hand corner and choose the icon Share on Moments to publish again. Great, you are almost there. 6. Please delete the first feed on Moments page so it doesn't have two posts of the same story.
How to publish your own articles, promotions, and invitations on WeChat using this cool new tool
If you want something to go viral in China, WeChat is your best bet. The messaging app and social network has become a focal point of daily life, and that includes being a major outlet for the app’s 468 million monthly active users to share and consume content. But how does that virality happen? Most Chinese mobile browsers come with two share functions specifically for WeChat: one for messaging and one for Moments, a stream not unlike Facebook’s news feed. Sure, you can copy and paste a URL, but it won’t be pretty and probably won’t garner much attention. These links show up in a similar format to Twitter cards – containing a title, thumbnail photo, and brief summary – that are much more shareable and visually pleasing. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll refer to these as WeChat cards. If you just want a one-off way to spread the word without creating an entire blog or website, there’s now a way to do that with a new WeChat app called Weitie (微贴). Use WeChat’s QR code scanner at the above link or search the account weitieme to access the app, which is housed in an official account. Several ideas come to mind for what Weitie could be used for. Show off an apartment you’re trying to sublet. Rant about a local store that scammed you. Find a buyer for that used bike that’s been collecting dust. Tell everyone about your recent vacation adventure. Or send out detailed invitations for your upcoming holiday party. Weitie is made by the same team that created Strikingly (hat-tip to Pingwest), a US-based website building tool. The app is all in Chinese for now, so here’s a quick guide with English translations on how to publish your own articles, advertisements, and announcements on WeChat. The tutorial Once you’re following the aforementioned account, you’ll see this dialogue in your chat. Click the left-most menu at the bottom of the screen to create a new Weitie, and choose if you want pictures and text or just pictures. For this demonstration, we’ll do pictures and text. Next, you’ll receive a message asking you what type of post you want to create. They are listed as follows: 1. A photo album with captions 2. Product display, for showing off items 3. An article, like a news story 4. A campaign, such as an invitation or announcement Despite the different options, they seem to more or less all look and function exactly the same. Perhaps this is something Weitie plans to expand on later. Type the number of your desired format and hit send. Keep in mind that if you can’t read the Chinese and get mixed up, the English version of WeChat allows you to long press messages and translate them into rough but usable English. Next, you’ll be asked to add a cover photo. Just hit the plus button and add an image from your gallery as you would if you were sending a photo to a friend. You can also skip this step by typing “1”. Note that this step bugged on me a couple times and I didn’t receive the next prompt. If that happens, just send the photo again. It won’t be added twice. Next you’ll be asked if you want to add an image in the body. I’d skip this step by typing “1” if you added a cover image, otherwise you’ll have two photos in a row. That brings you to the text input. Type or copy-paste one paragraph of your article text here and send it. From here, the app just alternates between adding photos and adding text, paragraph by paragraph. You can skip and add as many of either as you wish. Once you’re finished, just enter “2” and send, and the app will return a WeChat card linked to your finished article. Now that you’ve got a finished product, long press the card to forward it to another conversation. Tap the dots menu in the top right corner to view more sharing options, which include a URL for viewing in a browser and sharing to Moments. The only downside is that the randomly generated URL is under the weitie.co domain, and viewing the official account will return users to the Weitie official account page. You can find your archive of homemade WeChat cards by clicking “我的微贴“ (my Weitie), right next to the button to create a new one. A couple more things worth mentioning. As far as I can tell, you can’t add active hyperlinks in the text, but it won’t stop you from typing in URLs. Finally, if you mess something up and need to start over at any point, type in “放弃制�000(yes, must be the Chinese characters).
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1 It’s finally Friday, which means we know all you WeChatters have exciting plans for the weekend. We’re here to remind you to share them on “Moments,” because after all – sharing is caring.
2 One of the reasons why people sometimes prefer WeChat over Whatsapp or Viber is that WeChat has some interesting features that some people find convenient, fun and cool. They have a feature called Moments, a place where you can share photos, video or just a simple status update just like Facebook timeline. They also can be used from within a web browser on your desktop.
3 Sharing video on WeChat is fairly easy but for some reason sharing videos on Moments is not available yet.