Yahoo Messenger, the instant messaging chat service that has been ruling
the heart of the youth for the past two decades, has been shutting down since
July 17th. However, users using this instant messaging service can download
their old messages. Yahoo said that users will be able to download all their
messages for up to 6 months. The company is replacing Yahoo Messenger with a
new instant messaging app, Squirrel. Users can now apply for beta testing of
this new app.
Yahoo Messenger Chat was launched in
1998. This Messenger app was very popular among the Indian youth. Young people
liked it because of the Yahoo Messenger chat room, but since the arrival of
Google's G-Chat, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, there was a tremendous
decline in popularity of Yahoo and eventually the company had to shut down the
service.
However,
Yahoo also tried to revive the messenger from time to time, but in front of a
messaging app like WhatsApp, the users rejected it. In December last year, the
company had updated Yahoo Messenger's android, iOS and Wave version.
Yahoo
Messenger was relaunched in December 2015. The company fades out its first
version and loaded it with a whole new clover. In which the messenger's design
and look were completely altered. In the new Messenger, the most outstanding
feature was given, in which users could trace the message sent by the
trace-out.
However,
despite all these changes, Yahoo failed to make its mark in the hearts of the
users, due to which the 20 year old Messenger service is being completely
closed from July 17.
Challenges
from Google
Yahoo has
got the biggest challenge from Google. The web version of Yahoo Messenger first
got Gmail chat and then the app version got the challenge from Google Hangouts
and WhatsApp. People began to like Google hangouts and whatsapp, and Yahoo's
popularity decreased. Now let's see if Yahoo's new Instant Messaging app stands
on the test of people or not.
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