Find who is invisible in gmail chat (Gtalk)

Many people already blogged about this article. I made the same experiment. It works.
If you want to find say xyz@gmail.com is invisible or not.
Open your gtalk app and type this email address in top search textbox

Click the profile, it opens in new window as usual

Click on the down arrow button in the top right corner of the window, and you can see Go off the record link there.

And type any chat, say “hi”

You will get a red text showing the “person is offline , can’t receive the message right now ” implies theĀ  person is offline

If this message does not appear, it means the user is invisible

To know more about gmail and gmail chat visit my post series

http://www.sajithmr.me/series/gmail-architecture/

Regards

Sajith

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81 Responses to “Find who is invisible in gmail chat (Gtalk)”

  1. Sridhar November 5, 2008 at 10:28 pm #

    Does it really work like that? Thats quite clever ;)

    • asdfdude November 18, 2011 at 3:27 pm #

      It works. Im pretty sure of it.

      • Bhathiya May 17, 2012 at 12:15 am #

        This doesn’t work now right?

  2. Nel November 8, 2008 at 11:17 pm #

    Hey,this is great…would love to try this…waiting for a prey… ;)

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  3. feelme November 8, 2008 at 11:40 pm #

    Hi,

    A friend me that trillian has a plugin that shows which users are in invisible mode. I was just wondering whether there could be a similar one for pidgin. I have not been successful in finding one online.

    Anything, anyone?

    Me.

    • me January 13, 2013 at 4:21 am #

      Go Invisible Pidgin:
      Oct. 29, 2008, 5:48 a.m.
      How to go invisible in Pidgin?
      This is totally my personal opinion and you are free to comment the way you want.

      I am myself a person who strongly opposes being invisible in chats like GMail or Yahoo! chat. But the reason why I am writing this is simple.

      Off late, being invisible has become a craze (we call it “scope” in local slang ;-) ). This is no less than doing things in “STEALTH”. When we ask people who usually do things in stealth like this, the reason they give are “There are too many distractions. There simply too many people doing non-sense things and just ping because they are jobless”. These are the kind of responses we get. I agree that Invisible chat is indeed needed for these reasons. May we all have personal life and will have important work, where in we don’t want ourselves to be distracted.

      But these days some people always do things in stealth, whatever may be the situation. Oh, they have so much work? I never knew that they are the only people who have so much of work to do. They do it all the time and that too they don’t want to be distracted all the time. Ohoh, I did not even know that, all those people who do not do things in stealth don’t have work at all, as if!!!

      I still cannot believe the above fact. The whole point here is that, those people who will be in stealth will be knowing whats happening in open. But people in open donot know otherwise. Just imagine what might be happening. How can we trust people who are stealth? They are like people who “Attack From Back”. How can seriously trust those people? We don’t know what they do at any moment. First of all its better to stay away from such kind of people, I feel personally.

      Just imagine what may happen if everyone starts doing things in stealth. We just lose trust of everyone. No one trusts anyone else and a sort of cold war builds and we know the end. It just reminds me of a dialogue from Uppi’s movie where he says, (warning: its in Kannada), *Aavanu ivana namballa, ivanu avana namballa, ottinalli neev yaaru uddara aagalla*. Meaning one person doesn’t believe in the other, and the other person doesn’t believe in this person, finally no one of you achieve anything.

      But anyways after reading all these, if you still want to do things in stealth, here is how you can do for GMail chat in Pidgin. Note, the invisible status in Pidgin simply doesn’t work in Pidgin for GMail chat.

      1. Open the Buddy List.
      2. In the menu, Tools->Plugins. Enable XMMP Console. Close the Plugin Window
      3. In the menu again, Tools->XMMP Console->XMMP Console.
      (See if your account in which you want to go invisible is selected if you have multiple accounts. )
      4. In the text box, put the following XML snippet

      {{{

      5

      5

      }}}

      and then press enter.
      5. Done this is it. If this is not working on your version, now try changing the status to Invisible.
      Finally, if you want to reset the above settings. Follow the same procedure but make in the above XML snippet.

  4. Ransara November 24, 2008 at 2:32 pm #

    tried->success !!
    Great work !!!

  5. AB November 29, 2008 at 9:26 am #

    GReta maN…u Rox…
    Luv ya

  6. Rajneesh Patel December 2, 2008 at 11:41 pm #

    Nice trick man ……..

  7. vivashwat December 5, 2008 at 12:48 am #

    gr8 job dear…. keep it up [;)]

  8. Jeeva April 3, 2009 at 2:14 pm #

    G8 dude…Its working ……

  9. samik April 13, 2009 at 12:13 am #

    this dont work wid me…

  10. cdegallo April 17, 2009 at 12:11 am #

    any way to find this out passively, without typing/sending an IM?

  11. nothing April 27, 2009 at 7:06 pm #

    wht s d purpose behind setting it off the record???

  12. Samith Dilshan May 3, 2009 at 11:18 am #

    it’s Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllll

  13. Raja May 7, 2009 at 12:29 pm #

    Hai i want’s to chat.

  14. mandar May 9, 2009 at 10:16 pm #

    its amazing…!!!

  15. sharath May 22, 2009 at 12:19 pm #

    finally a way to detect invisible user in gmail without sending them any message, check out my blog

    http://sharathb814.blogspot.com/2009/05/find-invisible-users-in-gmail-gtalk.html

    Thanks,
    Sharath

  16. sharath May 23, 2009 at 11:26 am #

    a better way to find invisible users

    http://sharathb814.blogspot.com/2009/05/find-invisible-users-in-gmail-gtalk_22.html

  17. Abhilash May 30, 2009 at 1:08 pm #

    hey its really superb :)

  18. Ishan June 3, 2009 at 3:30 pm #

    thanks man it’s coool and really works

  19. sunk June 5, 2009 at 12:16 am #

    if we want to find a person who is not in our list thn how can we find him????????

  20. neeru June 30, 2009 at 4:23 pm #

    not good becoz you have copy and edit text from other blog

  21. Dinesh July 6, 2009 at 2:15 pm #

    thnks man u rockz………..

  22. anna July 16, 2009 at 10:23 pm #

    Is there a way to know who is invisible WITHOUT sending any IM? If you do so, your invisible contact will automatically know that you checking!!
    cheers, great web!!

    • Sajith M.R October 7, 2011 at 4:00 am #

      I don’t think, there is a way other than this

  23. BAS July 23, 2009 at 11:08 pm #

    Nice trick
    TFS

  24. deepak July 24, 2009 at 5:39 pm #

    cool trick man

  25. rakesh August 4, 2009 at 10:11 pm #

    hey this trick is common nothing new in that
    but there are some assumption
    Above mentioned 3rd pics also came if ur buddy close a browser or gtalk without sign out after accessing his account,
    belive it…….!

  26. Kwing September 9, 2009 at 2:02 am #

    I’m not sure this works… I’ve chatted to someone invisible and sometimes I’ll get that text talking to them; it only disappears when they say something.

  27. Rajesh November 25, 2009 at 11:45 am #

    Its really super…..it works great u r…. is there any other way to find without typing…..

  28. amal.vaj(india) November 29, 2009 at 8:46 pm #

    this ain’t workin wid me
    every chat box displays this second message

  29. aruna November 30, 2009 at 4:37 pm #

    Hi Sajith

    thanx this would help me lot

    give me more information reg gtalk

  30. hate December 14, 2009 at 12:21 pm #

    dont have any work…go and do some thing…dont waste time to finding all waste things…

  31. Alex Mathew December 16, 2009 at 4:10 pm #

    thks dude,
    its works

  32. priya December 31, 2009 at 5:38 pm #

    Is there a way to know who is invisible WITHOUT sending any message? If you do so, your invisible contact will automatically know that you checking!
    any gmail invisibile deyector is there..plz let me know..if its there!

  33. shekhar January 2, 2010 at 6:50 pm #

    great man.
    it really works.

  34. gopi January 7, 2010 at 2:32 am #

    thnx….

  35. Akilesh January 11, 2010 at 4:12 pm #

    dude!! is it possible to find out an unknown guy or a gal in this manner?? i mean people who are not in my contacts list!!
    tanx!!

  36. Srijith January 14, 2010 at 7:53 am #

    Here is a perl script to find invisible users in gmail. It checks for all users in your contacts.
    http://blog.sriunplugged.com/linux/find-invisible-users-in-gmail/

  37. Antony March 12, 2010 at 3:44 pm #

    Superb trick man..
    Excellent!!!…

  38. prav.. March 13, 2010 at 6:57 pm #

    yes i got.it’s a great work…

  39. Raghib Khan March 16, 2010 at 1:09 pm #

    Does it work in gmail…??

  40. Amit April 7, 2010 at 9:20 pm #

    hey…
    you are great man
    thanks a lot…
    it worked with me…
    thanks a lot again

  41. Niranjan April 14, 2010 at 2:06 am #

    One can remain invisible to a specific user in gtalk:

    By blocking anyone for chatting, irrespective of your status, you appear as ‘offline’ to all those users whom you have blocked…
    This isnt exactly as invisible…. cuz you cannot receive chats from blocked users…

    but still, you can avoid chats with them…

  42. dhiraj April 25, 2010 at 8:48 am #

    hey gr8

  43. sagar May 1, 2010 at 1:10 am #

    geniously geniousest genious

    wow wow wow

    yar main hamesha sochta tha ki pata nahi aisa kyu hota hai ki kabhi msg kro to red wali line nahi aati hai par kabhi aa jati hai bad m maine socha ki shayad system erro hoga koi par aaj mujhe poata chala woh to khurafati dimago ke dimag ka error hota hai

    chalo koi ni bhai KEEP IT UP!!!!!! lagey raho…………………

  44. sony May 3, 2010 at 6:55 am #

    wat about gmail. i am not asking abou gtalk. i am asking abt gmail. the persons can be invible in gmail also na then how can we find

  45. ali May 4, 2010 at 12:33 pm #

    I have only Gmail for Chat, don’t have Gtalk.

    May I know that who who has blocked me ?

  46. SRS May 19, 2010 at 12:37 pm #

    Cant you find out without sending message to that person?

  47. Armaan May 27, 2010 at 4:42 pm #

    after setting the chat off the record will the person get my message after he comes online

    • Sajith M.R May 29, 2010 at 3:10 pm #

      No, if the person is not online, he does not get your message if it is off the record

  48. mahmah May 28, 2010 at 7:26 am #

    Heyyyy this doesnt work on gmail chat ne more i dont think… :?

  49. chinni June 10, 2010 at 7:17 pm #

    thanks its worked…done a gr8 job

  50. vyompv June 26, 2010 at 8:11 pm #

    An easier way to find invisible users of Google talk

    http://vyompvblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/find-invisible-users-of-gtalk-gmail.html

  51. mau July 3, 2010 at 1:32 pm #

    if off the record already selected then

  52. vyompv July 4, 2010 at 11:03 pm #

    Find invisible users of Google talk easily. A small program which can be run in any Operating System.

    http://vyompvblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/find-invisible-users-of-gtalk-gmail.html

  53. thinker December 7, 2010 at 11:06 am #

    hey,,u better find sumthn of your own…i c the same trick in many websites.besides,this is not sum programming trick.u present it like u invented sumthn.be genuin.

  54. King December 16, 2010 at 8:21 am #

    I don’t understand whether this people think about the thing said or not. If the xyz@gmail.com is offline then gmail will say that xyz is offline.But when xyz logs in then…he will have a mail that sonso person sent u “hi” while u are offline….then xyz will think that that u are tracing him….???? So think of some different idea such that xyz will never ever know if u are tracing him……..

  55. Sajith M.R December 19, 2010 at 11:05 pm #

    @thinker, please check the first line of this article, “Many people already blogged about this article. I made the same experiment”

    I never said I invented this, I tried and it works, so I posted

  56. Mahua December 24, 2010 at 12:33 am #

    Let’s try this with you..

  57. Joya January 8, 2011 at 7:04 pm #

    google has fixed all the bugs related to this

  58. Sathy2789 March 2, 2011 at 4:59 am #

    This didn’t work for me…I did an experiment with my friend and i had her go invisible, then i chatted her, then i had her go offline, then i chatted her, and go visible and i chatted her…. none of them had the red “this user is not on” or something…i have seen it before but it is never consistant. When she went offline, it did the same thing as normal.

  59. kumar March 6, 2011 at 11:31 pm #

    it is not working dude,

  60. Deepak March 17, 2011 at 8:26 pm #

    Hi Joya you are wrong. The below site program works perfectly with its updated version “Udghosh”.

  61. Deepak March 17, 2011 at 8:27 pm #

    Hi Joya you are wrong. The below site program works perfectly with its updated version ā€œUdghoshā€.
    http://vyompvblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/find-invisible-users-of-gtalk-gmail.html

  62. jennifer March 19, 2011 at 6:06 pm #

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  63. jennifer March 19, 2011 at 6:08 pm #

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  64. akhil mohan April 30, 2011 at 12:06 am #

    Dude nice work !! its working perfectly !!! hope u come up with more of these ideas !

  65. ABHISHEK June 25, 2011 at 10:34 pm #

    this is really working yaar …….

  66. nahas July 25, 2011 at 12:44 am #

    when should i, change the settings ” go off the record” , whether he/she online or offline.. while he/she was offline, i checked his/her chat and go to action down arrow but the option “Go off the record” appears dull, that means i cant select it. plsss ply to ma mail in detail..tc

  67. arthi August 26, 2011 at 11:52 am #

    its working yaar…..clever………. thanks a lot

  68. karthik September 2, 2011 at 9:58 pm #

    it’s not 100% working..!
    i tried with ebuddy accounts in gtalk chat,
    not working properly

  69. sarman September 4, 2011 at 5:08 pm #

    thanks
    da macha

  70. Hakuna Matata October 27, 2011 at 12:01 am #

    :-) ))))) very nice ! :-)

    Bravo ! ;-)

  71. Munawar Gul November 30, 2011 at 5:56 pm #

    wow really i cant believe it i found my friends invisible so many time. its worrking yarrrrrrrrrrr

  72. bhana January 6, 2012 at 9:28 am #

    ooooooooooo really its working munnawar

  73. bhana January 6, 2012 at 9:29 am #

    :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
    i m to haapy today

  74. Lornajane March 14, 2012 at 4:46 pm #

    Hi,WHat if I cannot click the go off the record.

    What if it shows that?

    Regards
    Lornajane

  75. Bhathiya May 17, 2012 at 12:17 am #

    Not working. Off the record is inactive.

  76. deepak October 5, 2012 at 6:53 pm #

    Wow this site is cool. A small program awesome and that too free!!! it search all invisible buddies :D

    http://vyompvblog.blogspot.in/2010/11/udghosh-find-invisible-users-on-gmail.html

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