Is Yahoo Messenger down?

Status: ✅ OK

There is currently no sign of a Yahoo Messenger outage.

Yahoo Messenger was a popular instant messaging platform that was launched by Yahoo in 1998. It allowed users to chat with friends and family using text, voice, and video chat. It also had features like file sharing, emoticons, and chat rooms. However, Yahoo Messenger was discontinued on July 17, 2018, and is no longer available for use.

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📈 User Reports and Outages in the Last 24 Hours

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🌐 Yahoo Messenger Outage Map

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Yahoo Messenger outage map · 2025-07-30

We haven't observed any significant outages affecting Yahoo Messenger in the past 24 hours.

🔎 Social Media Monitoring

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You couldn't ask for a shittier way to communicate with people. Why are the options so ******* far and few between now? We ha IRQ, AIM, that weird Yahoo Messenger no one ever used, and a slew of others. We're distilled down to **** water and everyone claps like seals for it.