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Tencent QQ, Inc. otherwise called QQ, is an instant messaging software program and online portal created by the Chinese tech genius. Tencent QQ offers benefits that give online social games, music, shopping, microblogging, films, group and voice chat programming. It is the world's fifth most visited site, according to Alexa. As of April 2014, more than 200 million active online QQ users were recorded. At the end of June 2016, there were 899 million active QQ accounts.
Tencent QQ was first delivered in China in February 1999 under the name of OICQ ("Open ICQ", a reference to the early IM administration ICQ).
After the danger of a brand name infringement claim by the AOL-owned ICQ, the product's name was changed to QQ (with "Q" and "QQ" used to suggest "cute"). The product acquired existing capacities from ICQ, and extra features, for example, programming skins, people's images, and emoticons. QQ was first delivered as a "network paging" ongoing communications service. Other features were later added, for example, chatrooms, games, personal symbols (like "Meego" in MSN), online storage, and Internet dating program.
The official users runs on Microsoft Windows and a beta public version was launched for Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or newer. Formerly, two web versions, WebQQ (full form) and WebQQ Mini (Lite version), which use Ajax, were available. Development, support, and availability of WebQQ Mini, however, has since been discontinued. On 31 July 2008, Tencent delivered an official user for Linux, but this has not been made compatible with the Windows version and it isn't capable for voice chat.
Tencent QQ holds the Guinness World Record for the most highest number of simultaneous online users on an instant messaging program with 210,212,085 users online on July 3, 2014.
In response of rivalry with other instant messengers, for example, Windows Live Messenger, Tencent delivered Tencent Messenger, which is focused on businesses.
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