WeChat lifted the restriction that it is not allowed to add more than 5,000 friends, but the 5,001th and later friends cannot read the Movements update, according to Sycaijing.com.
When the 5001th friend is added, even manually setting Movements update open to the friend, it will still cannot be set successfully with the prompt message showing that there are already a lot of friends who can see your Movements update.
WeChat is an acquaintance social tool. At first, a limit of up to 5,000 friends was set may be based on the consideration that the user circle of friends generally does not exceed 5,000 people.
But with the development of WeChat, the number of active users is increasing, and the scope of user relationships is gradually increasing. Therefore, for some user groups, there is an increasing need to increase the maximum number of friends.
It is worth mentioning that the permission setting of friends such as WeChat is "one-way restriction". In other words, users with a friend count of 5,000 or more can view information such as Movements and WeChat sports for new friends, but the other party does not have permission to view your Movements.
At present, Tencent's official customer service still claims that the maximum number of WeChat friends is 5,000. Therefore, it is unclear what the maximum number of friends to open on WeChat this time.
