{"id":42683,"date":"2013-06-05T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=42683"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:23:56","slug":"hotmail-bids-a-final-farewell-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hotmail-bids-a-final-farewell-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotmail bids a final farewell on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hotmail<\/strong> was recently rebranded as <strong>Outlook.com<\/strong>, and now the famous email service has said a last goodbye on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995 a project called HoTMaiL started life, and would go on to be the world&#8217;s most popular email service. Bought my Microsoft two years after launch for 400 million dollars and rebranded MSN Hotmail, it gained massive popularity through its integration with MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42684\" title=\"Hotmail\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/HOTMAIL.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/HOTMAIL.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/HOTMAIL-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Microsoft bought Skype, it soon decided to retire both Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail, which <a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/the-complete-guide-moving-from-messenger-to-skype\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>upset many users<\/strong><\/a>. The move to Outlook.com isn&#8217;t quite as tough as that to Skype, as Outlook.com maintains all the features of Hotmail. Nevertheless, it&#8217;s sad to see the end of such old services (by internet standards).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Hotmail&#8217;s final tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>This is it, the last @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hotmail\">hotmail<\/a> tweet. Farewell! Remember stay connected and follow @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/outlook\">outlook<\/a> for news and tips on free email from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hotmail (@hotmail) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hotmail\/status\/342045937608310785\">June 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Goodbye Hotmail!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/t\/outlook-com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Read more about the move to Outlook.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotmail was recently rebranded as Outlook.com, and now the famous email service has said a last goodbye on Twitter. In 1995 a project called HoTMaiL started life, and would go on to be the world&#8217;s most popular email service. Bought my Microsoft two years after launch for 400 million dollars and rebranded MSN Hotmail, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hotmail-bids-a-final-farewell-on-twitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hotmail bids a final farewell on Twitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2669],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-42683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionhotmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332820,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42683\/revisions\/332820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42683"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=42683"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=42683"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=42683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}