Hello, stylized as hello, was a

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founded by

Orkut Büyükkökten Orkut Büyükkökten (born February 6, 1975) is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking services Club Nexus, inCircle and Orkut. Orkut Büyükkökten is a former product manager at Google. Career Originally from Konya, Tu ...

, the creator of Orkut. The service used to support access via a

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and was available for

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and

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. It was launched May 1, 2016, as a replacement to Orkut, which was shut down on September 30, 2014. Hello is owned by Hello Network. As of September 2019, Hello had been downloaded approximately 1 million times, compared to Orkut's 300 million active users. 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".

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