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| Founder | Noah Everett |
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| URL | heello |
| Launched | 10 August 2011; 14 years ago (2011-08-10) |
| Current status | Suspended |
| Native client(s) on | "iOS", "Android" |
Heello was an onlinesocial networking service andmicroblogging service launched in August 2011, and owned and operated by Heello Inc. Heello enabled its users to send and read text-based posts and to share pictures and videos. Heello was founded byNoah Everett (the founder ofTwitpic), exactly one day afterTwitter rolled out its official photo-sharing app.[1][2] Heello is financed by the money generated byTwitPic through online advertising.[3]Within the first day, there were about average 4 Pings a second.[4] On 12 August 2011, Noah Everett reported that Heello had reached 1 million Pings in just 2 days.[5]
As of September 2012[update], the HeelloAPI had not been released, and developers were trying to create applications/tools using alternative ways.[6]
On 8 August 2012, the Heello team announced via Twitter that they were working on a new version of the website[7][8] The linknew.heello.comArchived 2012-08-25 at theWayback Machine that they Tweeted on their Twitter account and Pinged from their website mentioned the development of mobile applications for theiPhone andAndroidplatforms.
A post from their blog[9] stated that the new version's main features were going to be:
On the 12th of January 2013, Heello launched its new, updated web service to over 1 million Heello users. The new update included Private Pings, header photos (similar to those ofFacebook orTwitter), as well as a cleaner, slimmer design and an improved API. These changes were widely welcomed throughout the Heello user base and were admired for their modern design. Although it still had an ample number of errors throughout the platform, the company said it was working to help pull Heello back to its feet, and after 4 days of launching the new Heello, it said that it had over 65% of its user base back on and Pinging.
On June 23, 2014 the Heello team announced that Heello would be shutting down on August 15, 2014. A link was provided to request an archive of user data. Heello was no longer available after June 24, 2014.
It was unofficially re-created in Russia after 2014[10]
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