Wechat was planned and launched from 20 10 to 10 by Tencent Holdings Ltd, an information technology company in Shenzhen, and was created by the product team of Tencent Guangzhou R&D Center. The team led by team manager Zhang Xiaolong has successfully developed Internet projects such as Foxmail and QQ mailbox. Ma, president of Tencent, confirmed the name of this product as "WeChat" in the email of product planning.
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 it is not favored by the outside world because it only has simple functions such as instant messaging, sharing photos and changing avatars.
In the following three beta versions (1. 1, 1.2 and 1.3), WeChat gradually increased the reading of mobile phone address book, the intercommunication with Tencent Weibo private messages and the support of multi-person dialogue function. By the end of 20 1 1 April, Tencent wechat had obtained four or five million registered users.
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 12 March, wechat users broke through 1 100 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.
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.
20 13,1Late 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 20 13, some netizens rebounded because their real names required users to upload photos of hand-held ID cards.
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.
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. It can be seen that WeChat will further integrate Tencent's internal resources, and may imitate siri and develop in the direction of artificial secretary. [2]