It seems that the company responsible for WeChat, Tencent International, might have set up a temporary ban for users who use the Shake feature too frequently in one session. One of our readers noticed that he was able to get normal results, as opposed to purely Chinese results in Shake, if he simply stopped shaking for about half an hour. To us, this makes perfect sense. Although the Shake feature is fun and quite exciting to use by times, we assume that it creates quite a drain on the WeChat servers. This may be because of a drain on their servers or it could be an attempt to cut out or eliminate spammers from using the Shake feature to promote their products. India, for instance, seems to have taken to this app in a big way. When a company realizes the marketing potential available through WeChat, we think they would leap at the chance to contact users one to one, perhaps to the point of paying people to shake and then send out spam messages to users. How popular is WeChat? As far as we know, the two sides of the app work in conjunction with each other. We have contacts who use Weixin and some who use WeChat. If you get odd results, take a break. Like our Facebook page, please and thank you! Recently I u installed. But after installing , while making shake, I am only getting distant location match. I am located at Singapore,but I am getting thiland, Malaysia or Middle East, China area. Earlier I did not face this problem. At least some are Chinese, which makes sense, but there are many Indonesians, more than I would have expected to find around here in this part of Canada. Expats tend to look for other expats but unless you are living in a kind of Little Indonesia, it would be unlikely that there would be so many. If the people you see on People Nearby are listed as being from somewhere else, then WeChat is messed up somehow. Have you added any third-party apps? Anything at all to do with Indonesia? Never see any mainland Chinese, which leads me to believe that Shake is actually segregated to discourage casual contact between foreigners and Chinese citizens. Add QQ first, make your contacts with it and then add them to your WeChat. Weixin is WeChat in China and it is very popular. Remember that China is 12 hours ahead of you, right now anyway. In the winter they are 13 hours ahead. When you are shaking, they are probably sleeping. That is only for temporary meetups. Good luck and thanks for commenting. Take it for what it is, a free and fun way to meet people. You mean Chinese people never answer your messages? Maybe they only use the Chinese language. Do you reply to someone who uses a language you cannot read? The Chinese also use a Chinese keypad and writing English is very difficult for some. And guys, if u get only Chinese people who live soooo close by. Try this, it worked for me. Change your region on we chat to somewhere in china. The next day, shift it bak to your current region. The next day, try using shake. Cheers Do you mean banned? If that is what you mean, we suspect that one or more of your friends are reporting your posts in Moments. The only was WeChat would know about your posts is if someone reports them, whether or not they are offensive. Find out who it is and delete them. I m also get that irritate msg while shaking just now I fixed that problem. Here the solution,first logout ur Wechat. Then exit it, take a 2 min break and then un install ur Wechat then do a soft reset in Lumia r remove ur battery then restart and download we chat again. It works perfect for me and my friend all the best and thank you… There are far too many devices out there for us to supply assistance with one model. Did it work before and stop? Time to get a new one or have yours fixed. It seems like India has really taken to WeChat. There seem to be more users in India than anywhere else, except China. If you happen to be in India, it seems likely that any result from Shake would be from the same country, right? Try shaking at different times. Maybe you are Shaking when everyone else in India is looking for someone to chat with. Usually WeChat users complain about getting only Chinese results in Shake. If you can use WeChat at all then you are not blocked or suspended. Maybe the problem is your phone. In order to use Shake, your phone and WeChat have to know that you are actually shaking your device. Perhaps you have broken whatever mechanism that indicates you are shaking it. Shake work perfectly for us, always has, so it looks like the problem is your phone, not WeChat. Time to get a new one. We think you must have added a third party app, perhaps one that helps you find contacts. These are almost always full of malware. Set your phone back to its factory settings and download the REAL WeChat application from your app store. Change your password too. Good luck and thanks for commenting. We still think that people are using helper apps or not downloading WeChat from the proper source. The problem may be from a third party app that you have installed. That app may be skewing your search results. Reset your phone to its factory settings then install WeChat and nothing else. See if Shake works. We predict that it will work normally. Yes, we think they are fake. Try Shake on another device, one with NOTHING on it except WeChat. We suspect your results will be different. There are, however, many Chinese in every country in the world, right? Looks like there is something wrong with your connection. Try changing your display name or opening another WeChat account. We updated our Android to 4. If a friend stands beside you, will their Shake work? Reboot your phone, clear your cache, things like that. The last time it worked for me is months ago. How hard is it to just send out one message explaining what is going on? With the bottles it seems they added a limit but they tell you that in the app. Why would they not do that with shake if they also added a limit to that.
