Check If Someone is Invisible, Offline Or Blocked You On GTalk
GTalk is one of the most used messaging services on internet. People love GTalk because it’s easy to use and light. GTalk does not use much resources of your system. It’s fast and easy to get installed. And above all, it can integrate all your Gmail and Orkut contacts in one place and that’s why GTalk is getting more popular day by day. After all it’s a Google product, hence it should be also.
Initially Gtalk was not having any invisible option in it. Which means you will get noticed by all your friends once you log in. But later, after a lots of requests from it’s users, GTalk decided to start this invisible feature. But, they started this invisible feature for those who uses GTalk from GMail or Orkut. If you are using GTalk from your desktop, you may not get this facility.
In this post I will guide you with three things that you might find interesting. You can consider these as GTalk tricks. And the three things are:
- How to know if someone is invisible on GTalk.
- How to know if someone is offline or not.
- How to know if someone has blocked you on Gtalk or not.
Lets get started step by step. I am sure, you will have fun reading these Gtalk tricks.
How To Know if Someone is Invisible or Offline on GTalk :
People activate this invisible feature for many reasons. They might be busy or do not want anyone to disturb them. They want to chat with few people they want or they want to stay hidden and contact the persons they wish. I always stay invisible on Gtalk, so that I can talk with the persons I want 
Now if you want to fool the people and know about their online status even when they have logged in with invisible feature activated, then this is possible. Poor Gtalk! There are two ways to do this.
- You need to have a GPRS enabled mobile handset.
- Download a free software called gotalkmobile on your handset and install it.
- After the installation, log on to your GTalk account with your login details.
- Now, this will show you the entire online friends list. It does not matter if they are online or invisible.
- In this way you can catch your offline friends as well. The persons who are being shown as offline, are not present on GTalk.
- And you are done above. You will notice those online (visible + invisible) as well as the offline friends.
And the second method as described by Deepak jain is :
- Set the chat as off the record with target user. This can be done only when the other user is online.
- Now try sending chat to that user when he is invisible or offline.
- If he is invisible, then he will receive chat.
- But if he Is offline, then you will receive error “<username> did not receive your chat”.
How to Know if Someone Has Blocked You on Gtalk :
Now this is worth exciting. Few times we notice friends not contacting us for a long time. Even though we send them messages, they never reply us back. It can happen because of three reasons.
- He/She is avoiding you. (Are you that much notorious?)
- He/She is offline since a long! (This is a busy world, really!)
- He/she blocked you on GTalk! (He/she did not find a friend in you!)
Whatever the reson may be, it’s nice to find the reason yourself. Let’s find out the exact reason of not getting a reply back. But for this you need to have PIDGIN and configure it properly. Pidgin is a third party tool, available for free. You can use all your messenger accounts at once using this software. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, Zephyr etc. Read the below steps properly.
How to configure PIDGIN for GTalk : (Via Rakshit)
- Download Pidgin.
- Go To Accounts –> Manage –> Add.
- It will open a new window Add Accounts.
- From the drop down box choose XMPP as the Protocol.
- In case of Screen name enter your Gmail Id (e.g. – solid.blogger).
- Type gmail.com as the Domain/Server.
- In Resource Field enter Home.
- Type your Gmail Password in the Password Field.
- Choose any Nickname (e.g. – Bapun) as Local alias.
And you are done with Pidgin settings. Now lets play with Pidgin to find those GTalk contacts who has blocked you. For this follow the below mentioned steps.
1. sign in to GTalk on PIDGIN with your details
2. Go to Buddies –> Show Offline Buddies (The person who has blocked you is being shown as offline to you. So, in this way you can catch him.)
3. Now all available contacts will be visible to you. Select any one contact from that list.
4. Right click on that selected contact, and click on Get Info.
5. Now here is the twist. Clicking on Get Info will show the brief profile of the person. But now if the person has blocked you on Google Talk, you won’t be able to see his/her full profile. You can’t even see his/her profile name.
This is the best way to know if someone has blocked you on google talk or not. If he has blocked you, then he will appear to you forever. I guess this the best way to find the person who is either offline or invisible or has blocked you on google talk. Also read How To Use Gtalk In Firefox Sidebar.
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i dont get a +ve response after doing all great stuff
its nt working
could any one of u solve i t out
quick question-if I do this, for some it shows up as "@gmail.com" and under profile it says status: offline
but for others, it will show a profile picture and a "Full Name"
does just showing status as offline mean blocked or does the entire box have to be blank?
@ Ashish : The entire box need to be blank.
Bapun…. if u send a message to someone on pidgin who u suspect is blocking u…. I get an error "message delivery to xxxxx failed…." so does this mean it is confirmed i have been blocked?
Not exactly. Gtalk could have been facing some server difficulties
what is the “priority’ which is shown in the profile info in the pidgin?
Hey Its Unable TO show The User Who Were Invisibe…So Its Of No Use!
it works!!!
ya u r right dear…
the trick is working…
thanks a lot dude. i already install and its work fine..
n i've been blocked by my ex-gal.. totally i got the answers.. n i've to leave.. uh!
another way might be when you click on the id of the person ,XX,you suspect of removing you,and the small pop up window appears..the message says
"XX is offline."
if XX removed you otherwise you get this message
"XX is offline. You can still send this person messages and they will receive them the next time they are online "
thank you
if someone block me on Gtalk… he can also block my emails? plz reply me if you knw abt it
@ James : Yes, if someone blocks you on Gtalk, you automatically get blocked on other Google services as well.
Hi, I found your article interesting and tried it to know whether my gtalk account was blocked by someone. I just wanted to know,suppose if my gtalk id is blocked then whoever has blocked my id,his profile details will be completely blank,right??? I can see just the full name and the photo,does that mean i am blocked???
Also i want to find out whether some one is invisible without the use of mobile……is it possible to find out through PIDGIN if some one is invisible????
This is truly for losers who have no respect for people's privacy. If someone doesn't want to talk to you and you go through all of this to find out why they aren't talking to you….I understand why they hide from u online. Get a real life!
If you think human relationships are so straightforward then you have no right to speak. While on the computer it's as simple as block/unblock there are nuances that make it useful to know what the other person has done sometimes. Are you seriously proposing, KM, that human interaction is simple enough to be left to block/unblock circumstances notwithstanding?
Sounds silly when you put it that way, doesn't it. So does your post.
@ Poulomi : Nope, you can still see the person's profile page even if he/she has blocked you. Pidgin is a Windows based application and hence can't be accessed from mobile phones.
very smartly done .. thaks a lot
Dude My friend blocked me in gtalk,i want to unblock it,how to do……plz help.
Hey.. then go talk mobile thing is ok ! Is there no way to do it with ur comp directly ! I mean w/o using ur mobile !
Dude u rock !!!
you have solved one of my biggest problem.
btw my invisible thing didnt work out but the blocked one did .
please help.
when you check get info, for yahoo… it almost never has any information and usually says that it is in a format that cannot be read. with msn, it has : has you and blocked… the blocked does not mean if THEY blocked you, it is to let you know if YOU blocked them. Also, I am doubtful that the missing information/prfile pic is a way to tell if u are blocked on google. if YOU block them this information disappears… or at least it shows the contact as offline without a pic, but I am fairky certain that I am blocked and yet I still see a pic and the contacts name. Anypne able to clear this up for me?
if it only says their status like "offline" does this mean that they blocked me?