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WeChat suspends new user registration

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The Chinese interwebz are all a'flutter.
Why, you ask?
On Tuesday, a social media post made by Tencent’s WeChat team announced that WeChat has temporarily suspended new user registrations.
Some context: The last major tech giant to suspend user registrations was Didi Chuxing.

Didi didn't do so volu...