By Shawn Lim

Chinese social platform WeChat is planning to put up paywalls for officially verified accounts on its platform to allow users to monetise their content.

Users with verified accounts can charge readers either for selected original content or all posts from 1 yuan to 208 yuan (15 cents to US$30). No revenue will go to WeChat during the trial period, according to The South China Morning Post.

For a start, the Tencent-owned platform said the paywall feature would be limited to a number of bloggers who have published at least three original pieces of content without violations of community Read full story ›

Source: The Drum