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QQ Interesting Key Facts
OICQ was the original name of Tencent QQ when it was first released in February 1999.
OICQ means Open ICQ, a reference to the early IM ICQ.
AOL, owner of ICQ, threatened Tencent for trademark infringement lawsuit, because of this, OICQ’s name was changed into QQ.
The QQ name implies “cute” in chinese messenger culture back in the earlier days.
Nowadays, specially in the gaming community, QQ is used as a taunt by players to imply two big crying eyes with tears falling down.
Web QQ, the web version of the app, was shut down last 2019 as part of Tencent restructuring its businesses.
QQ Kandia, an app meant to compete with ByteDance, was also shutdown on August 2022.
QQ mail, a mail service provider associated with QQ, had a functioned name “drift bottle”. Users on QQ can ‘throw’ these drift bottles, while staying anonymous, into a virtual ocean where other users can then pick up these “floating” drift bottles. Although one can throw anonymously, it was still possible to put in contact information inside the drift bottles.
Tencent closed the drift bottle function in 2019.
QQ coin is a virtual currency used by QQ users to purchased items in QQ. However, the People’s Bank of China tried to crack down on these coins due to QQ users using the virtual currency to purchase real world goods.
What are the top industries that referred QQ the most?
Search Engine is the largest industry that refefrred QQ, covering 15.74% traffic. Then, there's programming & developer software, covering 12.94% of it.
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About the author
Ch Daniel is the co-founder of SignHouse and chairman of the CH Group. Daniel is leading the development of SignHouse's product, as well as strategising how else the company can reach its main mission: empowering 100M+ to use the world's most efficient document organisational tools.
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