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Share your Twitter updates with Yahoo! Messenger friends

August 13, 2009 on 1:36 pm | In 9.0 version, Other services | 7 Comments

Did you know that you can easily share your Twitter updates with your Yahoo! Messenger friends, even if they aren’t following you?

The updates feature in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 allows you to share updates from a variety of outside sites and services with your Yahoo! friends.

When you elect to share your latest Twitter tweets with anyone, friends that have you on their Messenger contact list will be able to see them.

To start sharing your Twitter activity with your Messenger friends, first go to the Share More page on your profile and select Twitter from the list. You’ll be asked to enter your Twitter username. (Note that if you don’t see Twitter in the Share More list, you may already be sharing your updates. In that case, move onto the next step below.)

Then go to the Manage My Updates page. Find Twitter in the list and choose one of three options from the drop-down menu:

Anyone – Your latest tweets will be shared with anyone who is connected to you on Yahoo!. That means friends on Yahoo! Messenger or friends that you’ve connected with on your Yahoo! profile.

My Connections – Your tweets are only shared with people you have explicitly connected with via your Yahoo! Profile.

No one – Your tweets will not be shared with any Yahoo! friends.


To share your tweets with all of your Messenger friends, be sure you select “Anyone” from the menu. Your latest tweet will appear under your name in their Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 contact list or on your contact card.

Happy tweeting!

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

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  1. Sarah, has your group considered adding a CAPTCHA verification system for posting comments? I see a lot of spam getting through in the blog, and this might help.

    Comment by Fake Al Gore — August 14, 2009 #

  2. Y! Messenger is getting better and better…

    Comment by Petru — August 14, 2009 #

  3. not really impressed. Ofcourse havent been for some time. could you maybe spend some time makeing bot moderated user rooms instead of createing this little novelty that we could have made using yahoo open source

    Comment by Matt payne — August 17, 2009 #

  4. Sarah,

    There is a problem with YM for Mac Beta 4. Whenever I use a headphone set with microphone, other people sound like chipmunks on Yahoo Voice. It is not the headphone set because I tried several brands. I re-installed YM. I am using an Intel-based iMac. Please HELP!!!!!!

    Comment by Srini — August 18, 2009 #

  5. Srini,
    It because of the voice compression protocol. From messenter preferences try selecting proper internet connection option, that might resolve your problem.

    For example, if you have cable or DSL and in the messenger preferences, your internet connection is selected as dial-up then you could face such a problem. If you have dial-up, I guess there is nothing you could do.

    Comment by Saurabh — August 20, 2009 #

  6. Is broadcasting Twitter updates not possible with YM 10 Beta? I don’t see Twitter in the Manage Updates page.

    Comment by Chandru — September 6, 2009 #

  7. MOBILE# 00639192616111—SMS ONLY

    Comment by SUMMER — July 25, 2010 #

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