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Development History

WeChat was planned and launched by Shenzhen Tencent Holdings Limited in October 2010 and built by the product team of Tencent Guangzhou R&D Center. The team led by the team manager Zhang Xiaolong has successfully developed Internet projects such as Foxmail and QQ mailbox. Tencent President Ma Huateng confirmed the name of this product in the product planning email as "WeChat".

2011

On January 17, 2011, a cultural communication company in Beijing applied to register the WeChat trademark. Tencent’s WeChat trademark applied for registration on January 24, 2011. It was only late. One week.

On January 21, 2011, WeChat released the 1.0 beta version for iPhone users. This version supports importing existing contact information through QQ numbers, but only has simple functions such as instant messaging, sharing photos, and changing avatars.

In the subsequent three beta versions of 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3, WeChat gradually added support for reading mobile phone address books, interoperability with Tencent Weibo private messages, and multi-person conversation functions. As of 2011 At the end of April, Tencent WeChat gained four to five million registered users.

On May 10, 2011, WeChat released version 2.0, which added voice intercom functions like Talkbox, making WeChat’s user base grow significantly for the first time.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-WeChat