Hello (social network)

Not to be confused with Ello (social network).

Hello, stylized as hello, was a social networking service founded by Orkut Büyükkökten, the creator of Orkut.^[3][4][5] The service used to support access via a mobile app and was available for Android and iOS.^[3] It was launched May 1, 2016, as a replacement to Orkut, which was shut down on September 30, 2014.^[6] Hello is owned by Hello Network.

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Original author(s)	Hello Network, Inc.
Initial release	May 1, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-05-01)
Stable release	; iOS 2.5.8 (December 6, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-12-06)[1]) Android android.2.9.9 (April 26, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-04-26)[2]) [±]
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Instant messaging and social media
Website	www.hello.com

Hello Network, Inc

Headquarters	San Francisco
No. of locations	Mountain View, California, United States
Founder(s)	Orkut Büyükkökten & John Murphy

As of September 2019, Hello had been downloaded approximately 1 million times, compared to Orkut's 300 million active users.^[7] Hello.com was shut down in April 2022. According to their website, "We are pausing hello while we get ready to launch something even better".^[8]