Yahoo Messenger was given a fresh
inning by Yahoo with the simultaneous launches on Android, iOS, and the Web,
however, it faced a stiff competition from the rivals.
The 2 decades old chat platform was
introduced in 1998 as Yahoo Pager and it became popular within a short span of
time. The youth, then, preferred Yahoo Messenger to chat with their friends and
family – it was also all the rage here in India. However, with the emergence of
Facebook and WhatsApp, the Yahoo Messenger gradually began losing users, so
much so that the word ‘Messenger’ is synonymous with Facebook Messenger, not
Yahoo Messenger.
Yahoo Messenger is being killed off
by Oath, The old messaging app will be put to rest on July 17, which will also
be all the existing users, who have somehow been able to prefer Yahoo Messenger
over other chat apps in today’s time, will be moved to Squirrel, a new
messaging app by the Company. The Yahoo Messenger users will have 6 months with
them to download their chat history.
The Yahoo Messenger’s new journey
crippled even before it could so far. After Yahoo was acquired by Verizon
Communications, Yahoo Messenger came under the control of Oath, another company
that Verizon owns.
Squirrel, the company’s new app that
has been under testing for a while, will replace Yahoo Messenger, in a hope to the
instant messaging business. However, Verizon hasn’t found a right replacement
product for Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo Squirrel is currently available as
invite-only, so if the user wants to sign up for the app, they will have to
sign up for the beta programme.
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