“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. To bring the users back, the company launched a new version of its messaging service in 2015, but that didn’t help much.Ĭurrently, Yahoo is experimenting a new app for the replacement of Yahoo Messenger called Yahoo Squirrel. In 2015, the messenger held only 5.8% market share in US. In 2008, it had about 248 million users, but the numbers started decreasing as the smartphone and mobile apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Telegram emerged. The Messenger competed with AIM, MSN Messenger and ICQ for years. It was rebranded as Yahoo Messenger in 1999. Launched around 20 years ago in 1998, Yahoo Messenger was initially called Yahoo Pager. After July 17, you’ll no longer be able to access your chats and the service will no longer work,” wrote Yahoo on its website. Until then, you can continue to use the service normally.

“Yahoo Messenger will no longer be supported after July 17, 2018.

Yahoo is finally putting its instant messaging app Yahoo Messenger to rest on July 17.

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