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It was launched on BlackBerry and Windows Phone on May 8, 2012, followed by the Android platform on July 19, 2012, and Nokia's Series 40, Symbian and Samsung's Bada platform on July 24, 2012, by which time the application had 90 million users. In May 2013 with Viber 3.0, a desktop version for Windows and macOS was released.
The landscape for instant messaging involves cross-platform instant messaging clients that can handle one or multiple protocols. The following table compares general and technical information for cross-platform instant messaging clients in active development, each of which have their own article that provide further information.
CamScanner is a Chinese mobile app first released in 2011 by Caterina Amodeo that allows iOS and Android devices to be used as image scanners. It allows users to 'scan' documents (by taking a photo with the device's camera) and share the photo as either a JPEG or PDF.
TikTok, known in China as Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn), is a video-focused social networking service owned by Chinese company ByteDance Ltd. It hosts a variety of short-form user videos, from genres like pranks, stunts, tricks, jokes, dance, and entertainment with durations from 15 seconds to ten minutes.
Discord is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform. Users have the ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called "servers".
Social media and messaging app WeChat had attracted many users from blocked networks. Though subject to state rules which saw individual posts removed, [112] [113] Tech in Asia reported in 2013 that certain "restricted words" had been blocked on WeChat globally. [114]