![]() Ironically, it’s the telcos of the world whose revenues have been cannibalised in part by over-the-top messaging services, although Yahoo Messenger’s demise is far likely less related to that, considering that it is not one of the most popular services on the market today. “As the communications landscape continues to change over, we’re focusing on building and introducing new, exciting communications tools that better fit consumer needs.”Īlongside that, the company, as a part of Oath, is now owned by Verizon, the telecoms behemoth. “We know we have many loyal fans who have used Yahoo Messenger since its beginning as one of the first chat apps of its kind,” it notes. The company is not specific about its reasons for shutting down Messenger, but the writing has been on the wall for some time, given the dominance today of Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger, Snapchat, WeChat and a number of others. Notably, Oath also shut down AIM, AOL’s equivalent messaging app, in October. ![]() The company says your Yahoo ID remains intact for other services like Mail and fantasy sports. Cumulatively over the last 20 years, hundreds of millions of people have used the service, the company said. Yahoo has not broken out active users of Messenger for some time, and theoretically anyone logged into any Yahoo property is logged into Messenger. “We’re constantly experimenting with new services and apps, one of which is an invite-only group messaging app called Yahoo Squirrel (currently in beta).” Squirrel is a group messaging app Yahoo started testing last month. “There currently isn’t a replacement product available for Yahoo Messenger,” the company writes. Today, Oath (which also owns TechCrunch) announced that it would be winding down the service on July 17 as it continues to experiment and consider how and if it can have a relevant place in the messaging landscape amid huge domination from Facebook and others in mobile apps. You know, that platform that hastened their demise.It’s the end of an era for Yahoo Messenger, one of the first instant messaging apps on the market. The company eventually shut down the platform after 15 years in 2014.ĭo you miss any of the old messaging services? Drop us a line with your favourite early internet apps on Twitter. The company recommends deleting the app as soon as you’ve downloaded the chat history, because it’ll no longer work.ĪIM left this mortal coil just before Christmas last year, and MSN was done for as soon as Microsoft bought Skype. “As the communications landscape continues to change over, we’re focusing on building and introducing new, exciting communications tools that better fit consumer needs.” “We know we have many loyal fans who have used Yahoo Messenger since its beginning as one of the first chat apps of its kind,” the Verizon-owned company wrote on its support site (via TechCrunch) One of them is Yahoo Squirrel, an invite-only group messaging app that’s currently in Beta. ![]() ![]() Yahoo says it is working on new communications tools more befitting of the mobile age. That can be achieved through a specific downloader request site. Those wanting to preserve their chat history will need to download it to their device within six months. In little over five weeks, the 20-year-old platform will no longer work and users won’t be able to access chats. Yahoo Messenger will be discontinued on July 17, the web pioneer giant announced on Friday. First it was MSN Messenger, then it was AIM, now the last great bastion of early internet chat is on its way to Silicon Heaven. ![]()
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