Wechat supports multiple languages and mobile phone data networks. Users can take photos or videos and send them to "friends circle". Users can select contacts in the contact list and use cloud services to back up and restore data to protect users' address book data. Wechat also has subscription number, service number, enterprise number and other functions, allowing users to subscribe to their favorite official WeChat account. It also provides a good platform for the media. Everyone can apply for a personal subscription number to publish personal articles, and users can get articles from WeChat official account through subscription or search. Users will not be charged for using most functions of WeChat.
Development history
20 1 1 year
2011117 A cultural communication limited liability company in Beijing applied to register the WeChat trademark. Tencent's WeChat trademark was registered at 201110, only one week late. [ 1]
On 20 1 1 year 1 month 2 1 day, wechat released a beta version of 1.0 for iPhone users. This version supports importing existing contact information through QQ number, but only has simple functions such as instant messaging, sharing photos and changing avatars. [2] In the following three beta versions of 1. 1, 1.2, 1.3, WeChat gradually increased its support for reading the mobile phone address book, exchanging private messages with Tencent Weibo, and talking with many people. By the end of 20 1 1 April, Tencent wechat had registered four or five million.
On 2011may 10, wechat released version 2.0, adding voice intercom function similar to Talkbox, which greatly increased the user base of wechat for the first time.
20 1 1 In August, 2008, WeChat added the function of "viewing people nearby" to make friends with strangers, with users of150,000. By the end of 20 1 1, the number of WeChat users had exceeded 50 million.
20 1 1, 1,1,WeChat released version 3.0, which added the functions of "shake" and drift bottle, increased the support for traditional Chinese interface, and increased the mobile phone numbers bound by users from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, the United States and Japan.
2011117 A cultural communication limited liability company in Beijing applied to register the WeChat trademark. Tencent's WeChat trademark was registered at 201110, only one week late. [ 1]
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20 12 March, the number of wechat users exceeded 1 100 million. On April 19, WeChat released version 4.0. This version adds the same photo album function as Path and Instagram, and can share photo albums with friends.
20 12 April, Tencent began to try to push WeChat to the international market. For the Europeanization of WeChat, its English version 4.0 was renamed as "WeChat", and then multilingual support was introduced.
On July 2012 19, a video chat plug-in was added to version 4.2 of wechat, and a web version of wechat interface was released.
On September 5, 20 12, WeChat version 4.3 added a shake-and-pass function, which can easily transfer pictures from the computer to the mobile phone. This version also adds voice search function, which supports the unbinding of mobile phone number and QQ number, further enhancing the user's control over personal information.
2065438+September 2002 17, Tencent WeChat team announced that the number of registered users of WeChat exceeded 200 million. [3]
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20 13, 13 Late at night on June 5th, Tencent's WeChat team announced in Weibo that the number of WeChat users exceeded 300 million, making it the communication software with the largest number of downloads and users in the world, and its influence spread all over Chinese mainland, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province, Southeast Asia, overseas Chinese gathering places and a few westerners.
On February 5, 20 13, WeChat released version 4.5. This version supports real-time intercom and multi-person real-time voice chat, and further enriches the functions of "shake" and QR code, and supports the search, storage and migration of chat records. At the same time, WeChat 4.5 also adds the function of voice reminding and navigation according to the location sent by the other party. [4]
On April, 2065438+2003 1 1, Tencent wechat team officially issued a statement to some users through wechat, saying that "wechat charges users" circulating on the internet was malicious rumor, and stressed that wechat would never charge users. [5]