If you’ve been following the press over the last week, you’d have noticed a large exodus of users from WhatsApp to Signal and Telegram. I am one of them and I’ve written about why I chose Signal as my primary messenger. Like me, if you’re familiar with WhatsApp web and have used it extensively, then…
A few hours back WhatsApp started throwing up an Error: status unavailable for all contacts. This was sufficient to trigger mass panic of users addicted to the popular messaging service and this has brought back several variations of the year old hoax chain message. As you can see below is the error message for my profile.
Blackberry Messenger revolutionised chat by allowing you to connect with your other Blackberry friends quickly and securely. Then you have WhatsApp which hopes to connect across all phones by using your contacts phone numbers. Apple’s own iMessage app allows you to connect across all its devices including Macs, iPhones, iPads and iPods.
Messenger is a new app that brings Facebook to your desktop. While you surf the web or use other applications on your computer, you can: Chat and message with your friends on Facebook See the latest updates from your friends in ticker Get quick notifications about what’s going on Messenger lets you use Facebook without being on www.facebook.
I use Pidgin as my primary chat client. Pidgin allows me to login to MSN, Yahoo!, Google as well Google Hosted accounts all at once, thus ensuring I don’t have too many clients running at the same time to fulfil my chatting needs.
In a spectacular new development, you can now sign in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account to chat with your AIM buddies from Gmail. Your AIM buddies will populate your Contacts list, and are searchable just like your Google Talk contacts.
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