Yahoo! Messenger Blog

Sync your Messenger & Twitter updates

November 7, 2008 on 11:45 am | In 9.0 version, Features | 8 Comments

If you’re a Twitter user, you’ll find this plug-in really useful as it syncs the status messages you create in Messenger with the updates you make in Twitter.

Created by the New Zealand-based development team at WackyB, the Twitter Sync
plug-in allows you to change your status in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 and also have it update on your Twitter account. The same is true when you use Twitter to make an update; the plug-in will take what you wrote in Twitter and make it your Yahoo! Messenger status.

The plug-in also keeps you informed about what your Twitter friends are up to. You’ll receive notifications in Messenger every time a Twitter friend changes their status. So instead of having to visit Twitter or run a separate application to get updates, you can do it all right in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.

The control panel in the plug-in offers many handy features. You can set how often you want Messenger to check for updates from your Twitter friends, and you can control what kinds of Messenger status messages get pushed to your Twitter friends. You can also decide how you get alerted to new tweets – with sounds, popups or nothing at all. And if your friends are getting too tweety, the plug-in lets you pause updates from the main window. You can then use the Update Now link to manually pull in updates.

If you’re using Twitter and want to get updates about Yahoo! Messenger, go to our Twitter page to begin following our tweets and sending us yours.

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

Chat rooms down for maintenance @ 3pm PT

November 6, 2008 on 3:20 pm | In News | 27 Comments

Starting at approximately 3pm Pacific time today, the Yahoo! Messenger chat rooms will be unavailable due to some maintenance we are performing. We expect the chat rooms to become available again around 4pm PT. We’ll update this post once the chat rooms are back online.

Thanks for your patience,

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

This maintenance is complete as of 11/6/08 @4:30pm PT. We recommend signing out of Messenegr, closing the application, and then signing back in. Thanks

Vista users: Help us with 9.0 testing

November 3, 2008 on 1:13 pm | In 9.0 version | 69 Comments

We know that some of our Windows Vista users are encountering crashes when they try to start Yahoo! Messenger 9.0. We’re working hard to fix the issue and want to ask for your help.

If you are experiencing crashes when you start up Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 and would be willing to try out a new update we’re testing, please email us at vistatesting@yahoo.com.

We would especially like to hear from users that are willing to spend some time with us on the phone to troubleshoot the issues they’re having. If you are willing to participate, please include your phone number and the best time to reach you in the email.

We know this is a frustrating issue and we’re working hard to get it resolved. If you are experiencing this issue and can help us with debugging it, please email us at vistatesting@yahoo.com.

Thanks for your patience,

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager